Stickied: Link to a source document all of us doing anything creative in the US should know well. It is an official government document reiterating US copyright law through the date of the article (2006):

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf

should know well.

Great, now I need to go out and memorize 300 pages of stuff I'm not sure I understood in the first place...

All kidding aside Pete, thanks for posting. A little heavier reading than the Intellectual Property best practices comic book but probably less likely to get me sued or incarcerated... I've saved the .pdf for future reference and "light reading".

... the Intellectual Property best practices comic book ...
That was a good idea, but according to Paul Tauger, our resident IP attorney, it was
poorly executed and contained plenty of misinformation. We won't speak of it again.