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Repost At Your Own Risk

  • Roxie Pell
  • July 28, 2015
140 characters may not seem like much, but when writing is your career, every letter counts. Joke-stealers beware: Twitter is coming for you.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 9, 2015
Klingon: Where intellectual property and language collide. One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us. Poverty is all in your head. Really. After this…
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Fifty More Shades of Grey (And Counting)

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 10, 2015
Prospects for your serialized proto-fictional new generation adaptation of The Hunger Games are bright. As fan fiction solidifies its status as a literary genre in its own right, publishers are…
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Protecting Our Writing

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 24, 2014
Though copyrights on creative works are automatic, those protections get complicated quickly, especially when it comes to publication. Howard Richard Debs breaks down the basics of copyrights for writers, explaining…
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Walking the Road Into Mordor

  • Lyz Lenz
  • December 11, 2014
A Tolkien scholar writes about how he fought off a lawsuit from the Tolkien Estate: I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and put my research skills to work…
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It’s Fair Use, My Dear Watson

  • Dinah Fay
  • November 5, 2014
There’s been no shortage of Sherlock Holmes spin-offs in the past few years, and with the Supreme Court’s decision not  to hear a case from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate,…
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Why We All Can’t Be J.K. Rowling

  • Alex Norcia
  • July 11, 2014
After a panel at the House of Commons about copyright issues, author Joanne Harris writes in the Telegraph about the difficulty of being successful within the publishing industry. Among other…
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Judges Release Sherlock

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 18, 2014
Sherlock Holmes has been freed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle claimed copyright over the character who first appeared in 1887 and has…
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The Fair Use Posse

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 15, 2014
The Authors Alliance officially launches on May 21st at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The group, founded by Pam Samuelson, Cory Doctorow, Katie Hafner, Kevin Kelly and Jonathan Lethem, is…
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Public (Image) Domain

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 6, 2014
What happens when the reproduction rights of literary works and an author’s public image are taken out of their owner’s control, but without any law infringement? Over at the Paris…
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Sherlock Holmes Enters the Public Domain

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 30, 2013
Excellent news: Your X-rated Sherlock/Watson slashfic now has the blessing of the American legal system! Well, sort of. A US district court has ruled that, with the exception of a…
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Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright

  • Brian Spears
  • April 10, 2010
Counterpoint asked “a lot of people” (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne’s Law, and…
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