Electronic Highway Robbery: An Artist's Guide to Copyrights in the Digital Era

By Mary E. Carter

In this new computer age, how can an artist tell if an image belongs to someone else? How can a multimedia producer tell if a film clip is in the public domain? Answering these and other crucial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201883937
• ISBN13: 9780201883930
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read for everyone involved in web page design

Finally a book on copyright for the web written in right-brain language that a non-lawyer can understand.The web is the modern day equivilant to the Old Wild West in which images are freely copied, modified and redistributed, all over the world, where they might be seen, and re-used by portentially millions of people. The rights of the individual author and artist are blatantly disregarded, to some extent because of willful disregard for the property of others, but mostly because of ignorance. The notion that the web is for everybody is all the justification some people need to plunder your images.This book explains our rights and copyrights as artists, designers, and content providers and tells in plain words what we can do to protect ourselves from being the victims of web crimes.Mary Carter's strength is in her ability to condense large mountains of infomation into small bitesized bits of information.This book is extremely well written, and unlike most books written by lawyers, it is written with wit and charm.I cannot recommend this book highly enough.Gary W. Priester Graphic Designer