We often encounter client work that, in our eyes, relies too heavily on Wikipedia. Some “borrowers” copy Wikipedia content into their work without understanding the responsibilities and the consequences of such heavy borrowing. Authors, bloggers, and contributors to articles, books, and blogs are responsible for the intellectual property in their work. It is important to be aware of […]
Posts tagged fair use
Derivatives – Build on Another&...
Derivatives must be transformative U.S. Copyright Law is all about protecting creators’ works in order to offer incentive to these creators so that they keep on producing works for the good of society. So it seems that building on an existing work such as a play, poem, song, or film would be blessed in the eyes […]
Best Practices in Copyright Complianc...
Copyright compliance: the indie publisher’s dilemma Whether we are publishing our own book in print or in an electronic format, creating a blog, producing a YouTube video, writing an article as a freelancer, contributing to another’s blog, linking to others’ content or embedding it into our work, inevitably we are faced with hard questions regarding […]
Copyright Infringement: Dangers of Co...
We creatives know there is nothing new under the sun. We know that art and literature thrive, in part, because creatives in these fields have so much wonderful work from which they may glean ideas for new works. And there is much public domain content that can be used to legally create derivatives. A derivative work is […]