Showing posts with label rowena cherry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rowena cherry. Show all posts
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Off Topic And Off Target

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When one creates or invents something, one wants to consider ones options for copyright protection, patent protection, trademark protection ...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Attribute, Attribute, Attribute

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And if you cannot attribute...obtain a license and a waiver. Photographers have moral rights, unless they waive them. They also have copyr...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

All For Nothing

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Another week, another slew of bad news for creative people... By nature, this "alien romance" author is a cup's-half-full ty...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Other People's Faces...and Stuff.

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The most interesting copyright-law related blog of the week was penned by Kimberly Buffington of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.  The c...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Oh, Arrgh and Blasty!

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There's a new service on the horizon to help authors locate and scupper pirate links on Google. It's in Beta, so is free to the pati...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

EMF 24/7

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Can one prove something that one does not want to prove?  Of course, but there will be a bias, and the bias may skew the results. Moreover, ...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Of This And That....

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This is my take on topical matters, mostly to do with copyright --as is my wont-- but with a few petty rants thrown in for good measure. I...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

If You Value Your Domain....

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We've heard of "eminent domain", but I'm considering a pun on "imminent domain", as in "imminent domain nam...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Fish Out Of Water

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I'm not talking about the Australian "Climbing Perch", the mangrove rivulus, or the mud skipper.  I'm talking about cre...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Be Careful What You Retweet, Pin, Share, or Like

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Inadvertently Liking, Re-Tweeting, or Sharing Infringing Content It should be no surprise that much material posted online violates copyri...
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Sunday, October 04, 2015

Invisible Hero

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Invisibility is a great ingredient for science fiction, and for implausible action movies. James Bond had an invisible car. Harry Potter h...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Are You Thinking Of Joining the Authors' Guild?

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The Authors' Guild is a professional association for authors which offers such benefits to members as: • Free legal help on writin...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

On "Maleficent"

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I've always been intrigued by stories that take the traditional villain, and re-write the tale from his, or her, point of view. In my t...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Crime, Retribution And Punishment (in SF/SFR)

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How does a convicted criminal pay "their debt" to society... in our world, or in imagined alien worlds whether they are utopian or...
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Sunday, November 02, 2014

NaNoWriMo

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It's the second day of NaNoWriMo which is approximately National Novel Writing Month, and writers all over the world have signed up, and...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Copyright Compendium (and... Authors Beware Click-Through Contracts)

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The latest (third edition) draft of the Copyright Compendium is available for public comment before the final form is released in December ...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Jacqueline Lichtenberg will be Rowena's guest on Crazy Tuesday internet radio

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     The Sime~Gen novels by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah are being turned into a video role-playing game, taking the series off E...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Fatal Courtesy

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My post today is about the disastrous consequences of inappropriate language in the cockpit, but IMHO it has interesting applications for wo...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Search engines dedicated to copyright infringement

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Copyright infringement is hugely profitable for everyone except the authors of the content which is being infringed and monetized. For more...