COPYRIGHT CAR CRASH WITH LIARS WHO WANT TO STEAL YOUR CREATIVE LIFE

Writers beware – THERE ARE COPYRIGHT PIRATES ABOUT!

And we are fighting one right now – somebody who has stolen the work of at least a dozen people.

Ask yourself, what kind of man lives in a room in an old Stalag of his own dishonest and disgusting making .,. he sweats and he lies and he cons, he stabs you in the back, kisses you to your face and steals from you what he can.

Copyright theft is a weapon he likes, it is cheap, free, difficult to chase up … but what he likes is the fact it hurts people, gives them a sense of loss, makes them worry. And he will get away with it generally, because people don’t know how to fight back.

I have been in publishing since I was in my teens many decades ago … AND I KNOW WHAT TO DO!

WE WILL EXPOSE HIM SOON SO NOBODY SENDS HIM THEIR WRITING AGAIN.

BELOW ARE THREE PIECES, WRITTEN, TV AND VIDEO …. PLEASE SHARE AND PROTECT EVERYBODY’S WORK

READ ABOUT COPYRIGHT AND WHAT IT MEANS BELOW THE VIDEO – BUT ALSO LISTEN TO LEIGH AND RODNEY TAKE THE THIEVES TO TASK 30 MINUTES IN TO THE VID!

LEIGH ALSO MAKE A PLEDGE TO HELP GET YOUR WORK BACK FOR FREE IF YOU BECOME A VICTIM!

COPYRIGHT PIRATES ARE THE SHAME OF THE INTERNET!

COPYRIGHT is the exclusive right for the maker of a creative work to reproduce and be recognised as the creator of that work… inside Leigh and Rodney talk about lockdown, virus chaos – and the pros and the cons of the copyright pirates of the internet – on AirTV International – LISTEN TOO TO PIRATE JENNY!

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT – DON’T ALLOW ANYBODY TO STEAL YOUR CREATIVE WORK

Copyright means the person who created a piece of work is the owner of it. The owner has to be asked for permission before anybody else can use it.

In simple terms that’s how it works – and it works that way for Meghan Markle too as she tries to sue parts of the Press for what she says is using her writing without the necessary permission …

In the Duchess’s case it is a bit more complicated because, yes the content of the letter belongs to the writer – but the actual physical letter belongs to the recipient.

This still means that in order to share the content of a letter, the permission of the writer would be required in order to avoid copyright infringement.

There are exceptions to copyright. These are circumstances where permission is not needed – for example, if the use is for the purpose of criticism, review or quotation, or for the purpose of reporting current events. Each of the copyright exceptions have specific requirements that must be followed in order to benefit from them.

The exception for criticism, review or quotation requires that the material used was already available to the public – so this would not apply to a private letter. The exception for reporting current events requires that the use of the material is fair.

When considering if a use is fair, a court would take into consideration if the work had already been published, or whether it was confidential. The courts are unlikely to decide that use of material that is confidential was fair unless a legitimate and continuing public interest could be demonstrated, for example “leaked documents” with a clear public interest.

But the basic principle is, that if you wrote it you own it and even if you sell it to a publisher like a magazine etc, you only grant them first world writes, then it reverts right back to you again!

So, be warned, there are conmen liars and cheats haunting the internet who are ripping off young and inexperienced writers and STEALING their work!

Don’t let it happen to you – and if you do tells us at the Preservation Society and we’ll hang the PIRATES for you, for nothing! Free! Gratis!

Let’s stick together!

Below is Pirate Jenny by Nina Simone – nothing to do with copyright at all, just brilliant (and it mentions pirates!)

You gentlemen can watch while I’m scrubbin’ the floor
And I’m scrubbin’ the floor while you’re gawking
And maybe once you tipped me and it made you feel swell
In a ratty waterfront in this ratty-old hotel

But you’ll never know to who you’re talkin’
You never know to who you’re talkin’

Suddenly, one night, there’s a scream in the night
And you yelled, “What the hell could that have been?”
And you see me kinda grinnin’ while I’m scrubbin’
And you say, “What’s she got to grin?”

And the ship, a Black Freighter
With a skull on its masthead will be comin’ in

Then you gentlemen can say, “Hey girl, finish the floors
Get upstairs, make the beds, earn your keep here
You toss me your tips and look out at the ships

But I’m countin’ your heads
While I make up the beds
‘Cuz there’s nobody gonna sleep here
Tonight, none of you will sleep here

Then, that night, there’s a bang in the night
And you yelled, “Who’s that kicking up a row?”
And ya see me kinda starin’ out the window
And you say, “What’s she got to stare at now?”

And the ship, the Black Freighter
Turns around in the harbor
Shootin’ guns from the bow

Then you gentlemen can wipe off the laugh from your face
Every building in town is a flat one
Your whole stinking place will be down to the ground
Only this cheap hotel standin’ up safe and sound

And you ask, “Why did they spare that one?”
And you ask, “Why did they spare that one?”

All the night through, with the noise and to-do
You wonder, who’s the person lives up there?
Then you see me steppin’ out in the mornin’
Lookin’ nice with a ribbon in my hair

And the ship, the Black Freighter
Runs the flag up its masthead
And a cheer rings the air

By noontime the dock
Is a’ swarmin’ with men
Comin’ off of that ghostly freighter

And they’re movin’ in the shadows
Where no one can see
And they’re chainin’ up people
And bringin’ them to me

Askin’ me
“Kill them now or later?”
Askin’ me
“Kill them now, or later?”

Noon by the clock
And so still on the dock
You can hear the foghorn miles away

In that quiet of death
I’ll say, “Right now
Then they’ll pile up the bodies
And I’ll say, “That’ll learn ya”

And the ship
The Black Freighter
Disappears out to sea
And on it is me

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