Copyright Fees to Go Up
As if writers weren’t scraping by enough, Scriverner’s Error reports that the copyright fee is going up from $30 to $45 for all registration applications received on or after July 1, 2006.
View ArticleWithout Written Permission
Techcrunch’s Duncan Riley unearths this YouTube morsel (the irony here being that uploading such a clip to YouTube also requires written permission from the NFL). The NFL is now stating that one cannot...
View ArticleThe Copyright Hypocrites at Viacom
The Knight Shift: “So Viacom took a video that I had made for non-profit purposes and without trying to acquire my permission, used it in a for-profit broadcast. And then when I made a YouTube clip of...
View ArticleSFWA Enacts McCarthyism Revival
Cory Doctorow: “SFWA’s copyright campaigns have been increasingly troublesome. In recent years, they’ve created a snitch line where they encourage sf lovers to fink on each other for copying books,...
View ArticleAhoy, Maties! The German Street Economy is a Tad Too Vigilant!
Variety: “Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday approved a controversial copyright law, which makes it all but illegal for individuals to make copies of films and music, even for their own use....
View ArticleThe U.S. Copyright Office
Paramount Pictures Corporation holds co-copyright on David Foster Wallace’s “Host.” Nicholson Baker’s first two records, registered in 1981, were for two stories: “Snorkeling” and “K.590.” Both...
View ArticleFuck You, Associated Press
The Associated Press have now devised a new set of rules for what it considers to be fair use. If you are a blogger quoting more than four words from one of the AP’s articles, the AP now expects you to...
View ArticleWhat the AP Owes Its Sources
If the Associated Press wishes to charge bloggers for the number of words they can quote from their articles, then the time has come for the AP to pay for quotes it uses in articles. What follows is a...
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Racism and Copyright Games: The Fallacious Position of William Sanders
Transcriptease offers a very helpful summation on the racist shenanigans of Helix editor William Sanders. For those who missed out on this piece of news, writer Luke Jackson sent Sanders a story. The...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome is Bad for Writers & Bloggers
So Google has released a new browser called Chrome. But I’ll never use it. And it’s because Chrome’s EULA wishes to take anything that I type into my browser window (which would include, ahem, this...
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