There are lots of ways to look up the law, even as a lay person--googling copyright law gives you this-- https://www.copyright.gov/title17/ https://www.copyrig

There are lots of ways to look up the law, even as a lay person--googling copyright law gives you this-- https://www.copyright.gov/title17/ https://www.copyright.gov/title17/ Google Scholar can also give you scholarly articles and guides the online legal encyclopedia, nolo.com is usually helpful and licensing, which could be state-by-state can be looked up, state by state on lawhelp.org