Showing posts with label websites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label websites. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Copyright Overload

I was researching information for a daily minder I created for my personal use. 

Holy moly, people. Some bloggers and webmasters take their writings a little too seriously. I ran into locations that forbade me from even copying and pasting for my own personal use, not to mention websites that disabled right-click as well. 

Excuse you? 

I just did another search and found someone with the same information but was not threatening me over it. I only wanted astrological signs. That was from a Ph.D. too! 

People should realize what the copyright laws are and are not. Copyright laws should never limit information. Especially, no one has the right to limit common information. Common information is data in the public domain. 

What can people see, feel, touch, and taste? The stars, planets, moon, sun are public. Constellations are public. Colors and their meanings are public, Flowers, trees, and other foliage are public. Herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, meats are public, The different animals are public. Anything paid for with tax money like government studies, photos are public. 

When I write an essay, I use the educational and informational aspects of copyright to cite each of my sources. What I have been running into are people who do not allow others to use their work in a legal and educational manner. 

To me that is affront to the nature of knowledge. If you do not want the public to readily access your intellectual property like poetry, fiction stories, or researched essays, then put those works into books, booklets, and add an ISBN and copyright license to your pieces. It is that simple. 

When people threaten others to read but not touch their websites and blogs, I leave and never return.  That is carrying copyright to a dangerous and albeit ineffectual level. You have knowledge? Then share it! 

But if you are sharing public knowledge without any intellectual creativity that would make that information your own property and telling people its not theirs to take.. well, I have news for you: it's not yours to begin with either! 

If you cannot share like good girls and boys, then why do you have a website or blog? Intellectual property cannot be claimed on public knowledge or information. Creativity can be.

For others who believe everything on a website or blog is free for the taking, not so fast. Everything created and written is under copyright protection. If you want to use something, ask permission first if you are not going to cite the information under MLA or APA styles. As well, research public domain for copyright and royalty free images, photos, and information. 

As for common knowledge, I guess humanity needs to have a talk about what is considered fair use and what is considered intellectual property since some people think whatever is published on the internet is theirs for the taking as well as the converse where some people feel that everything they publish online is so sacred that no one is allowed to use it. 

We need to restore a common sense balance in order to advance human creative and intellectual potential.

Thank you!

Have a great and wonderful day.



Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Poetry Publication Submissions via Online and Email

A search online for publications willing to receive submissions without being a vanity publisher led me to an interesting place.

In the article: Poetry Publishers Willing to Receive Submissions Electronically, an extensive list of publishers was provided. After 20 years of service the page will be taken down in July of 2016. So go there and make a copy quick!

Here is a sneak peak: 

  1. (Re)visions Festival: Video Performance Art
    Submit by web form
  2. {Prong & Posy}
    Submit by email
  3. A & U America's AIDS Magazine
    Submit by email
  4. Aberration Labyrinth
    Submit by web form Special interests: Horror/Speculative · Outsider · Underrepresented Writers · Cross-Genre · Free Verse · Contemporary · Fantasy · Trash Poetry · Nerdy Poetry · Emotive.
  5. Able Muse
    Submit by web form Special interests: fiction · nonfiction · translations · blank verse · light verse · quatrains · rhymed/metered · sonnets · villanelle · formalist.
  6. About Place Journal
    Submit by web form Special interests: ecology/environment · social justice · human spirit · land ethic · poetry · prose · multi-media · engaged art · interconnected universe · activist.
  7. Abramelin
    Submit by email Special interests: free verse · literary
  8. Acorn — A Journal of Contemporary Haiku
    Submit by email Special interests: haiku · poetry · short poems · imagist · zen · minimalist
  9. Adanna — A Journal for Women, about Women
    Submit by email
    This journal is dedicated to women, it is not exclusive, and it welcomes our counterparts and their thoughts about women today. I only ask that your submissions reflect women’s issues or topics, celebrate womanhood, or shout out in passion.
  10. The Adroit Journal
    Submit by web form
  11. Aeola Journal of Poetry and Art
    Submit by email Special interests: nature · humor · free verse · imagist · lyric poetry · fiction · narrative · flash fiction · haiku
  12. African American Review
    Submit by web form Special interests: African American · African Diaspora · American experience · black experience · minority writing · outsider · underrepresented writers · social issues · academic · eclectic.
  13. Agave Magazine
    Submit by web form
  14. Agni
    Submit by web form
  15. Agnieszka's Dowry
    Submit by email
    Send simultaneously to Marek Lugowski and Katriina Grace Craig, Co-Editors. Use plain text, with no attachments.
  16. Aji
    Submit by web form Special interests: Fiction · Nonfiction · Short poetry · Humanities · Themed issues
  17. AJN (American Journal of Nursing)
    Submit by web form
    Wants poems and very short flash fiction about experiences related to health care for its Art of Nursing department. Query Sylvia Foley (sylvia.foley@wolterskluwer.com) before submitting. Authors need not be health professionals. Special interests: health · health care · nursing · short poems · flash fiction
  18. ALBA — A Journal of Short Poetry
    Submit by email
  19. Albatross
    Submit by email Special interests: environmental · nature · narrative · free verse · long poem · short poems · new writers · established writers
  20. Alembic Literary Magazine
    Submit by web form

There are over 600 listings. 

Have a great and wonderful day!


Source: Andromeda Reutgers 

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