This June I’ll be headed to the United Kingdom to speak at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference. Attendance is limited so, if you’re interested, sign up early!

Whenever possible, I like to encourage guest posting on this site so that readers can receive a wide variety of view points from related fields. Today’s column comes from Dan Zarrella, a social media consultant.
Online social media, like socialized forms of media before it, has at its core the concept of communal recreation. Lessig called [...]

It was this time last year that I began to compile my list of predictions for content theft and plagiarism in the new year. Invariably, some of the predictions were right, others were wrong and some split the difference.
So, before I look forward into 2008, I want to take a moment and look back over [...]

This week’s linkroll wound up being a lot longer than last week’s. First off, it covers many more days and, second, there was a lot going on. From Egypt trying to copyright the pyramids to more news from the IFPI.
It seems that everyone is trying to take care of some last bit of business [...]

A recent post on Blackstar Rising by Scott Baradell entitled “Why Photographers Hate Creative Commons” lays out a case that Creative Commons Licenses, especially as they apply to photos, are frequently violated, misunderstood and, worst of all, confusing.
As someone who is both a CC user and some who has spoken up about problems with following [...]

It’s another Monday, albeit a more festive one, and that means, in addition to my usual post at the Blog Herald, it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
As usual, I sat down with Chris Matthieu from Numly to discuss the past week in copyright news, views and abuse.
All totaled, [...]

Though the video itself is nearly a year old and the presentation was given in October of last year, Professor Lessig’s talk at Google, as part of the Authors@Google series, remains just as relevant today as it did when it was first given.
Unfortunately, I just stumbled across this video today on accident and, looking at [...]

In a recent interview on b-l-o-g-g-e-r.com, Dennis de Bernardy commented on the issue of content theft and spam blogs
Bernardy, the creator of Semilogic Pro, which is a pack of themes and plugins for WordPress targeted at business users, said that the problem was due to RSS feeds and recommended what many would call drastic action.
There [...]

If you enjoy my appearances on the Copyright 2.0 Show and are a WordPress user, you’ll likely want to take a look at the latest edition of WordPress Podcast where I come on as a new co-host and talk WordPress news with the regular host and podcasting superstar Charles Stricklin.
I had a great time [...]

It’s another Monday and that means, in addition to my usual post at the Blog Herald, it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
As usual, I sat down with Chris Matthieu from Numly to discuss the past week in copyright news, views and abuse.
All totaled, the show had seventeen stories, [...]