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Fair Use, The Rights of Personality, and Unintended Consequences

by Joel Friedlander | May 20, 2010 | Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing

What’s more difficult to negotiate than print-to-epub conversions? Trickier than a multi-level index? Thornier than translating “tasteful nudes” into Mandarin? Rights. Intellectual property. Your copyright. Foreign rights sales. But most of all,...
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Top 10 Myths, Lies and Misinformation about Copyright

by Joel Friedlander | Feb 10, 2010 | Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Writing

I used to run into this kind of call a lot, years ago when I had my own little publishing company. An author would be on the phone talking about his book and why I should publish it. “And you don’t have to worry about the copyright either,”...

What Every Writer Ought to Know about Fair Use and Copyright

by Joel Friedlander | Feb 8, 2010 | Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Writing

I’ve been researching what the best practices are these days for copyright, and I’ll be writing about them in articles soon. But one area of copyright is really difficult to understand for most publishers, and for bloggers too for that matter. And that is:...

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