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
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
How to Query Plagiarism
Read the updated post. When an editor spots words that her writer didn’t write, she needs to flag them so that they get attributed to the right
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