by Caitlin Muir | Aug 8, 2012 | Blogging Tips, Website Tips
Searching for the right photo for your blog post or website can be a pain. A legal photo can be hard to find. After writing a post, the last thing any of us wants to do is flip through endless pages of expensive stock photos. It’s so much easier to Google the...
by Thomas Umstattd | Jul 28, 2009 | How To, Viral Marketing, Writing Tips
In this post you will learn what Creative Commons is and why and how emerging authors are using it to promote their books. The Creative Commons allows writers to reserve some rights and grant others. It is flexible, fair and allows your ideas to spread much faster. It...
by Thomas Umstattd | Jun 24, 2009 | Writing Tips
In 1977 my great grandfather wrote a book. A few years later he passed away. No one in my family knows who inherited the copyright. If a publisher wanted to reprint the book or make it available online they would need permission to avoid breaking the law. But who...
by Thomas Umstattd | Jun 10, 2009 | Writing Tips
When our founding fathers created the copyright they did it to encourage the spread of ideas. Copyrights, like patents, only lasted 14 years. Hollywood changed all that and every 5 years or so they extend copy right by 5 years. The result? Millions of books have been...
