Fair Use, Free Use, and Use by Permission: How to Handle Copyrights in All Media

By Lee Wilson

Who needs this book? Only every writer, photographer, illustrator, designer, brbusinessperson, musician, songwriter, brfilmmaker, teacher, researcher, advertiser, and Web designer in the United Statesbr How to find copyright owners, request brpermissions, and keep recordsbr Easy-reference copyright duration chart, form agreements, brform letters, resources, and checklistsbrbrPermissionsthey’re enough to make anyone crazy. Thank heavens there’s Fair Use, Free Use and Use by Permission, the one-volume reference that is sure to save the sanity of thousands of grateful readers. Writers, photographers, illustrators, designers, teachers, researchersanyone involved with intellectual property needs this practical, straightforward guide to copyright law. Find out what constitutes fair use, how to get permissions, and how to protect creative work, plus learn about copyright infringement, public domain, and much more. Illuminating true-life stories enliven the ins and outs of copyright law, and helpful charts, resource lists, and forms make the permissions experience vastly more manageable. Let a respected intellectual property lawyer show the way through the copyright maze!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Release date: Nov 2, 2009
• ISBN: 9781621531968

Lee Wilson

<b>Lee Wilson</b> is a Nashville intellectual-property lawyer and writer. In practice since 1984, she has written six books on intellectual-property law topics (some in several editions), all published by Allworth Press. Her books include <i>The Copyright Guide: A Friendly Guide to Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights</i>; <i>The Trademark Guide: Friendly Guide to Protecting and Profiting from Trademarks</i>; and <i>Fair Use, Free Use, and Use by Permission: Using and Licensing Copyrights in All Media</i>. She has written for the <i>Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice</i>, has published numerous articles on intellectual-property law for <i>Communication Arts</i> magazine and the Publishers Marketing Association <i>Independent</i>, has served on the boards of numerous arts organizations, and is a frequent speaker to arts and academic groups. She lives and works in the woods north of Nashville, Tennessee.