legal – Right Angels and Polo Bears

The Dangers of Copyediting

At a desk job like copyediting, what could possibly be dangerous besides the health effects of sitting all day? Well, not nothing!

Editors should look for and flag legal concerns in the content they edit, but should not—cannot, IMHO—be held ultimately responsible for it.

Just because content is on public display doesn’t mean it’s in the “public domain.” Learn what that term and 15

You know when the publisher wants you to accept responsibility for copyright infringement, plagiarism, and other legal issues that end

Read the updated post. Today’s post on four approaches to the myriad risks that editors face may includes the most

Check out the newer version of this post. When an editor spots words that her writer didn’t write, she needs

You don’t need to don a barrister’s wig to edit legal text. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com,

Being a new convert to Storify and the easy with which it aggregates content and displays it prettily, I am