This article could go a few different directions. Simple assault, maybe. Bedroom preferences, even. But actually, it is about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, otherwise known as SLAPP. I hear you. This type of slap is more mundane, but if you...
This article could go a few different directions. Simple assault, maybe. Bedroom preferences, even. But actually, it is about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, otherwise known as SLAPP. I hear you. This type of...
Under the Copyright Act in the U.S., the author of a creative work automatically owns the copyright. Whether you are a writer, composer, visual artist, filmmaker, or anyone who creates a copyrightable work, as a general rule you...
Earlier this month, our Sidebar Saturdays article, Ten Things All Authors Need To Know About Copyright (by Stephen Fishman), generated a question from a reader about international copyright protections. The reader is a...
Labor Day celebrates the contribution of workers to our economy. We celebrate it by not working. Enjoy the bar-b-que. Vacation calories don’t count. Photo Credit: candrews | Visualhunt | CC BY-NC-ND
At ThrillerFest this year (a writing conference in NYC for, you guessed it, thriller writers), I moderated a panel on negotiating publishing contracts. The panel consisted of two agents, two publishing lawyers, and two authors....