Premium user-generated content site Yepic, famous for encouraging bloggers to sell premium content through their service, is preparing to close their doors in just under a month, making another shift in the volatile user-generated content business.

The prospects for the orphan works legislation improve as a major artist trade group, the ASMP, throws their support behind the current version, calling it the best that artists are likely to get.

With the orphan works debate continuing to rage, for those who are opposed to the bill, I’ve written a draft letter to send to government representatives outlining some of they key problems with the bill and why artists are opposed to it.

It was yet another wild week for copyright news with the RIAA taking a hit in court, Radiohead turning around on the free model and even more news from Madonna and Yoko Ono among many others.

With a slow day today and the site needing some maintenance, I decided I want to give today’s post over to you and listen to what you want to see on Plagiarism Today. So let me know how this site can be serve your needs.

The proposed orphan works legislation has been drawing a large amount of criticism from bloggers and visual artists alike. However, much of it goes beyond what is likely to happen and what artists should be worrying about.

If you read this site regularly, you probably know a great deal about how to protect your content on the Web. However, you probably also know that the current system is an inelegant solution in need of serious repair. Here’s what’s wrong and what can be done about it.

Darren Rowse of Problogger fame suggested a that new bloggers should start their sites out with a partial feed and switch to a full one once they have enough “trust” from Google. But could the system work?

Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.

It was another wild week for copyright news with new legislation proposed, two unlikely artists embracing file sharing and Microsoft nuking DRM keys. Proof there is never a slow week in the world of copyright.