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Classes Starting the Week of March 18

Developing Characters with Character with L. C. Hayden Get Those Butterflies Out of My Stomach! Pesticide for Clichés with JoSelle Vanderhooft Strategies to be an Excellent Writer with Irene Roth  Special Events, Programs, and Webinars starting this week WEBINAR: Legal Issues in Social Media Marketing/Websites with Jacqueline Lipton ~ March 21 @ 9 p.m. EDT See …

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Events starting in February

Starting the week of Feb 4 Special Event: Polish YOUR Sweetheart Pitch with Becky Martinez  WordWonders: Irene Roth’s Mentoring and Instruction Program for Writers  MENTORING: Prism Marketing – A Power Author Marketing System with Deb Magnus  MENTORING: Writing the Thriller with Jacqueline Jacoby  Starting the week of Feb 11 Sweetheart Pitchfest ~ Feb 13-15 Starting …

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Fair Use in Copyright Law by Jacqui Lipton

 Copyright Infringement? Now we come to the blog post I least wanted to write because I like to be able to at least take a stab at giving clear answers to author’s questions, and there are very few clear answers in American fair use law. Not many lawyers, or even law professors like me, can …

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Free vs Free: The Public Domain and the Creative Commons by Jacqui Lipton

Many authors are confused by the difference between the public domain and the creative commons. This is not surprising because both the public domain and creative commons licenses allow you to use other people’s work (music, video, text, photographs etc.) for free. However, being free of charge is not the same as being free of …

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