law

A Rose is a Rose, isn't a Rose?

Bittersweet Symphony music video screenshot

I want to touch on a topic that is very important to most any field of practice, but in this case graphic design and the art of visual communication. How exactly are copyrights and plagiarisms handled? I’d like to demonstrate this with one of my favorite songs, Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve.

So Many Rules. So Little Time.

Little Trees

Education, research, criticism and even parody are times when it’s okay to use copyrighted material. But where do you draw the line? What falls in and out of copyright law and trademark law?