Writers often like to keep up with all that’s going on with the legal end of publishing, concerning things like copyright, plagiarism, new legislation, etc. To that end, the Scrivener’s Error blog is a good place to catch up on such news, and to read some legal commentary.
Copyright is “”the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work”. That means you cannot reproduce, scan, alter the work or else you will be sued and all that gratuitous legal matters will be poured out of the water hose drowning you. In this article, I accentuate the importance of respecting the author’s copyrighted work.
Recently I read an article concerning a situation where a mother wants to use alternative treatments for her 13 year old son who is a cancer victim. At this time the mother has defied a court order and has taken her son to whereabouts unknown. Although this subject is one to spark many comments and opinions, I found that the writer of that article didn’t seem to find any value in any opposing points of view.