Every junior designer or intern I’ve ever managed has eventually wandered over with the same sheepish question about whether they can use something they found online. Nobody teaches this stuff. Design programs spend semesters on typography and color theory but maybe one lecture on intellectual property, if that. So designers learn copyright law the hard way—by getting a yelled at by their freaked out creative director, or watching a colleague get yelled at.

Michele Hratko, a Pittsburgh-based designer, made a book about it. Who Owns This Book? started from the same questions:

As a design student, I frequently overhear peers asking questions along the lines of: can I use this image from Google in a poster? Can I use this trial font without buying it for a project? How much do I have to edit an image I find online before I can use it? The goal of this book was to respond to my peers’ musings and begin to answer those questions.

The lovely book is split into three sections—Who Owns This Library? Who Owns This Machine? Who Owns This Image?—and uses seven different paper stocks, color-coded sections, and a typeface chosen specifically for friendliness. Hratko on why the design choices matter:

Copyright law can also be kind of intimidating, so I wanted to use the design of the book to make the content more approachable and engaging.

That’s a long lost art—making essential-but-dry information something people actually want to pick up. The “Who Owns This Machine?” section is especially timely given every AI copyright case working its way through the courts right now.