Editors should look for and flag legal concerns in the content they edit, but should not—cannot, IMHO—be held ultimately responsible for it.
Tag: legal
Understanding Image Rights
Just because content is on public display doesn’t mean it’s in the “public domain.” Learn what that term and 15 others mean in my premium
When to Worry About an NDA
I once signed an NDA that said I couldn’t even say that a meeting had taken place to sign the NDA. And it didn’t. There
Legal Liability and the Copyeditor
You know when the publisher wants you to accept responsibility for copyright infringement, plagiarism, and other legal issues that end up in print? No. Don’t
Managing Risks in Editing
Today’s post on four approaches to the myriad risks that editors face may includes the most cross references ever: 11. What would you add to
How to Query Plagiarism
When an editor spots words that her writer didn’t write, she needs to flag them so that they get attributed to the right writer, and possibly seek
How to Edit for Lawyers
You don’t need to don a barrister’s wig to edit legal text. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, find out what you need
Best resources from the week of June 7-13
Being a new convert to Storify and the easy with which it aggregates content and displays it prettily, I am using it to display my