Last week I received an e-mail from my friend and New York Times contributor Chris Colin inviting me to his book party. But there was a catch. There would be no books at this party. Stranger yet, the book he had written was just 11,000 words and cost only $1.99 or $2.99 depending on [...]
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Last month, I came across this wonderful blog post by attorney Mark Fowler over at RightsofWriters.com (@RightsofWriters on Twitter), which details the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement. Essentially, plagiarism is an ethical, not an actionable offense, according to Fowler and others he quotes. Copyright infringement is a different story. According to Fowler, “Plagiarism does [...] “I don’t want you to publish your book,” my sister said to me last week when I was visiting my family in Michigan. It was after midnight and we were sitting in the ER waiting for my three-year-old son to wake up from his drug-induced state after getting stitches. Playing tag in the dark with [...] |
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