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Copyright Class 6 – Joint Authorship
So, what we will be looking at this week is two special categories of authorship: joint authorship and works for hire. We’ll examine what the law says about each and then what impact that has for...
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Copyright Class 7 – Work For Hire
Last week we looked at one special type of authorship, joint authorship. This week, we will be examining the other special type of authorship, work for hire. This is one of areas of copyright that I...
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Guest Post on Fictorians – What is IP?
Today, I have a guest post up on The Fictorians entitled Intellectual Property – What is it? First, it relates how lawyers conceptualize property, including property in objects of the mind – in other...
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A Second Guest Post – The Basics of Copyright
I have a second guest post up today on The Fictorians. It covers, as the title suggests, the basics of copyright.
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Copyright Class 8 – Infringement, Part 1
This week we move into a complicated topic – copyright infringement. This one will be a multi-class topic. The law on the second element of infringement, which we will take up next week, is one of the...
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Nancy DiMauro on Reversion Clauses
Friend, writer, and lawyer Nancy DiMauro is over at The Fictorians today telling you what you need to know about reversion clauses. Okay, let’s look at it this way. I was recently shopping a story to...
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Copyright Class 9 – Infringement, Part II
This week we look at the second half of the infringement analysis. Well, it’s half if you consider it as one of two elements. However, if we look at how much work or effort you have to put into this,...
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Magic and Copyright
A federal court in Nevada published a ruling on Thursday in favor of the magician Teller over a YouTube video showing one of his signature magic tricks, Shadows. Shadows essentially consists of a...
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Option and Right of Refusal Clauses
I have another guest post up at The Fictorians today. As a part of their month long look at the business side of writing, I discuss book contract clauses that potentially give publishers rights in your...
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Copyright Class 10 Infringement Part III
In the previous two classes (Infringement Part I and II), we’ve been looking at the heart of the typical infringement analysis. Today, we’ll be looking at one special limitation to infringement of the...
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Waking up from Hibernation
This blog has been in hibernation for almost three years, thanks to an addition of job responsibilities. Now that I’ve acclimatized to performing the duties of two jobs without cloning myself, the blog...
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Law at DragonCon 2017
DragonCon 2017 officially kicks off later this morning, though the party started as early as Wednesday for a great many. Since it’s one of my hometown cons, I’ll be attending as usual, and, as usual, I...
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One perspective on the Book Industry and Indie Publishers for 2018 from...
I’m sitting at 2018 #SuperstarsWriting Seminar in Colorado Springs, and we just finished a panel on Traditional versus Indie Publishing, featuring Mark Coker, David Pomerico, Paul Stevens, Dean Wesley...
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