I’m late to the party… the one where you stand by the side of the road watching a car wreck. I learned about the Cooks Source plagiarism fiasco a little more than 24 hours ago, when there were a mere 300 or so comments on Cooks Source’s Facebook page, before NPR, the Guardian (UK), Washington Post [...]
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Cooks Source Firestorm Over Plagiarism
Posted in Copyrights and Contracts, Internet Issues, tagged cooks source, Copyright, linkedin, plagiarism on November 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Show Me the Money: Getting What’s Due
Posted in Business Issues, Copyrights and Contracts, Freelancing on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, you turned the work in on time. Or your book or photo or article has been published — and the expected checks and statements haven’t arrived. The path from submission to payment can be labyrinthine, but for the purposes of this article (getting paid what’s due), we’re going to skip through all of those gnarly [...]
Fair Use
Posted in Business Issues, Copyrights and Contracts, tagged Fair Use, US Copyright Act on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Internet has turned Copyright on its ear. Our U.S. Copyright Act is not the most creator-friendly legislation one could imagine. While big companies — the ones that buy up the rights to popular songs and cartoon characters — have been able to use it very effectively, the protections it offers small-scale individual creators is [...]
Vanity Surfing: Who’s Stealing Your Stuff?
Posted in Business Issues, Copyrights and Contracts, Freelancing, Internet Issues, Writing, tagged Copyright, copyright violation, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, plagiarism on August 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
People are stealing your stuff. They are stealing your words and your pictures, your songs and your performances, and they are using them and even reselling them all over the Web. Don’t believe me? Do a little vanity surfing… If you’ve got a body of work that has gotten out to the public, chances are that some of [...]
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