From: Karen Christensen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:21 AM Copyright and Intellectual Property: Essential Issues for Academic Authors (60-minute online seminar) Only $49 including advance materials and a one-hour live online seminar with opportunity to get your questions answered. And it's FREE for all Berkshire Publishing contributors (if you are a Berkshire author or editor, you will receive a discount code in a separate email). Please join Karen Christensen, CEO of Berkshire Publishing, for a 60-minute overview of IPR for academics who write and speak. Learn how to share and protect your creative and intellectual work and how to ensure you do not infringe the rights of others. Available at no cost to Berkshire contributors and only $49 for other academic authors. Choose from one of three dates: 28 February, 6 March, or 13 March 2013. The time of day for each is different, to allow for professors’ teaching schedules. (Note: these have been scheduled for European and American participants. If you are in Oceania or Asia, please let us know about your interest and we will schedule appropriate times.) Click here to register for one of our three dates. You’ll learn: * How to avoid expensive lawsuits * What is your personal “intellectual property” * When and how to share your own work * What copyrights you should register, and when * And much more "The Chicago Manual of Style remains our bible, of course. But this supplementary mother lode of information is still a required purchase for anyone who works with words that will find their way to an international audience." --Library Journal This program developed out of Karen Christensen’s work with academic authors, who face questions about copyright and intellectual property rights at every turn. They have to police student papers for plagiarism, while themselves dealing with permission for the material they use in teaching. Their universities demand they sign over certain rights as a condition of employment. They are asked to sign contracts by journal and book publishers, and solicited for contributions open-access publications. They are caught between the demands of publishers for “all rights” and the university’s demands for copies of published articles for an institutional repository, and their own desire to share their work freely with colleagues and students. When they are asked to speak on other campuses and at public events, video cameras are rolling. The content of their speeches, as well as their presentation slides, are being posted on websites. They are writing blog posts and tweeting and discussing professional issues on public and private listservs. And they are sharing content written by other people with their students and colleagues, often without being sure if what they are doing is legal. This one-hour program is an introduction to copyright as it applies to any academic author, whether he or she is still a graduate student or is already a senior scholar who travels the world giving speeches and interviews. To be sure, there are academics who believe that copyright should not apply to academic work and we realize that “open access” and “copyright commons” are worth discussing. But they are not the subject of Karen’s one-hour session. Instead, she is focused on practical issues, and the information she provides comes from real-life experience as well as research, and from extensive discussion with lawyers specializing in intellectual property rights and FBI agents specializing in cybercrime. The course is available at no cost to any Berkshire Publishing author; other scholars are welcome to participate, too, at a special introductory price of $49. Click here to register for one of our three dates. If you're a Berkshire author, though, please do wait for another email with your discount code. And apologies for the duplication of emails! We try to avoid this, but we now have so many authors active in so many areas that there is inevitable overlap. ******* Berkshire Publishing Group 122 Castle Street Great Barrington, MA 01230