Inside Out? Inside Inman is Maureen's Outside blog Inside Active Rain

Chris, Looking forward to meeting you in SF.

thanks for the mention... I did not see that.

Marueen!

no... I think that is probably fair use.... I am completely confused by copyright... I will do a post about it sometime soon... about some things that I have puzzled over.

Brad Andersohn (AR) has a screen shot of the Inman blog... with a screen shot of my blog... I could do a screen shot of Brad's post and post it... but my beautiful new blog header would be pretty dinky by that time. Screen shot of a screen shot of a screen shot.

You are awesome Maureen!!!

Very cool thing to see your blog on Inman, you rock.

When I grow up (on AR) I want to be just like Maureen!  :)  Well done, you are a great ambassador of our brand!! 

thanks guys.  Are you doing "Outside" ActiveRain blogs?

It really is relatively painless.  I lucked out the bug that some ran into with their url not showing up for the longest time. It did not affect mine.  I struggled with the images because I am not good at that stuff.  My new blog was cached on Google on Sunday...that's a good thing.. all the old content kind of surprised me.  It is NOT like starting a new blog if you have local content on AR.  I don't really have a lot of local content on ActiveRain because I have gone back and forth on competing with myself on the search engines.

In the long run I think it will be very, very good... I can't wait to see the new localism on AR.

OK there is a post on Copyright by someone who knows something right now... I think the image he is using is copyrighted though...  be back with the link in a minute. 

OK there is a post on Copyright by someone who knows something right now... I think the image he is using is copyrighted image though...  be back with the link in a minute. 

back... sorry I stuttered... (double posted to Chris's blog)

here's the post I just read.... hope it is OK to include it here Chris.  Let me know if you do not want it here.  Thanks.

Bloggers Beware Copyright Battle May be Coming

I think the image he is using is too new to not be copyrighted by Norman Rockwell.  In the comments Lenn refers to The Boy Scouts having a copyright on it? So did they commission it?  I just know that  before 1923 is safer than after 1923. OLD DEAD ARTISTS are our friends.   I had looked up Norman Rockwell recently when someone at RL used a Norman Rockwell image. 

A lot of what I know about Copyright has to do with knowing Lenn Harley online and paying attention to Lenn sueing the pants off other real estate brokers and agents who have used her images (maps.)

I read everything Lenn writes about copyright and then research it further. 

I've got to admit that Fair Use and Licensing confuses me. 

Marcy Geffner's article on Inman which is one of the articles that is linked in "Bloggers Beware" has great things to focus on....

25 years in music?  Why then if you sing the famous happy birthday song on the radio or TV do you have to pay royalties? 

Or is that an urban legend?

Joe Virnig makes a good point in a comment on that post (the one I linked to)  about a postcard photographer whom he knows who is able to make more money from his stolen images (images stolen from him) than the ones sold as postcards. 

There is a big brouhaha in the bigger blogging world about the Associated Press.  I am not sure if anyone on ActiveRain has posted about it, this is one of the things that this post mentions but does not go into a great deal of detail.  The AP is trying to change the rules to make their words more protected as bloggers are taking more and more liberties appropriating content.  Cost per word?

I finally went and commented on the Inman article.  I may formally changing my name to Marueen.  There are far too many Maureen McCabes and this could be the perfect time to make that change. 

Congrats Maureen! Or Marueen. Or my most frequent typo: Muareen.

Good catch Chris.