She's going on yet AGAIN about her special unemployment and how she's above the system! Apparently she wants to be in the creative industry, so we're all screwed. Good thing she'll never get a job, otherwise she'd be the author of the next 50 Shades of Gray.
What are they going to do, hold a gun to your head and force her to insult and sue someone?
So she knows nothing about copyright law? Because pretty much the major basis for the law is permission from the holder of the copyright. A very good portion of the law can be rendered null and void if the copyright holder grants or refuses permission. That's what makes the law such a beast because it varies depending on the holder of the copyright.
The only way that would change is if you get into a really bad publishing contract with a publisher that gets the copyright over the work. That is easily prevented by being sure to consult with a lawyer before signing any publishing contract to ensure you keep your rights to your work and have a say about what people can and cannot do with it. Issues happen when people sign a contract blindly or think they have to give up their rights if they want to profit from their work.
Tons of authors think fanworks are awesome and outright encourage them, what planet does she live on. I've literally never heard of a COMPANY pressuring an author to go after fans before. The times when that's NOT the case, you're usually dealing with someone like Anne Rice and I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with outside pressure and everything to do with being a dramatic control freak.
She's referring to the concept of defending a trademark, but that really only applies if you're creating a major brand name you NEED to trademark. Coca-Cola can't let someone else call their drink Coca-Cola or it will be treated as a generic name in the law instead of Coca-Cola's property.
Copyright - the thing that most writers, artists, and the like spend most of their time worrying about - doesn't need to be "defended". You copyright your work and you can assert your claim to it or not as much or as little as you feel appropriate - you'll still hold the original copyright basically forever.
This is totally correct, but let's face it, most rpers don't know the difference between trademark and copyright, and this is hardly the first time someone has showed their ignorant ass over it.
US copyrights: As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first.
So actually you don't but your family can keep renewing the copyright.
That would be nice, but there's a loophole in it that says that so long as a publisher tries to get in contact with the present holder of the copyright, assuming the death of the author means it's in the hands of his/her family, then they can go ahead. You have to prove they didn't try to contact you, and it's both nearly impossible and prohibitively expensive unless you hold a massive intellectual property.
Unrelated, but something I learned from directly being fucked over like this just last week.
for all her flaws, she's been pretty tolerable when i've seen her in friends' plurks. maybe she just hasn't done anything to personally annoy them yet. besides, almost everybody has at least one embarrassing friend in their life, so she fills that quote i guess
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-06 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)She's going on yet AGAIN about her special unemployment and how she's above the system! Apparently she wants to be in the creative industry, so we're all screwed. Good thing she'll never get a job, otherwise she'd be the author of the next 50 Shades of Gray.
What are they going to do, hold a gun to your head and force her to insult and sue someone?
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-06 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)and... she does know there are plenty of creators who are fine with and/or encourage fanwork, right?
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-06 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)The only way that would change is if you get into a really bad publishing contract with a publisher that gets the copyright over the work. That is easily prevented by being sure to consult with a lawyer before signing any publishing contract to ensure you keep your rights to your work and have a say about what people can and cannot do with it. Issues happen when people sign a contract blindly or think they have to give up their rights if they want to profit from their work.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-09-07 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)Copyright - the thing that most writers, artists, and the like spend most of their time worrying about - doesn't need to be "defended". You copyright your work and you can assert your claim to it or not as much or as little as you feel appropriate - you'll still hold the original copyright basically forever.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-09 08:47 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-09-09 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first.
So actually you don't but your family can keep renewing the copyright.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-12 03:01 am (UTC)(link)Unrelated, but something I learned from directly being fucked over like this just last week.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-08 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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