TEN COMMON COPYRIGHT PERMISSION MYTHS By Attorney Lloyd J. Jassin

Although the First Amendment may appear unconditional on its face, the right to speak and write freely has never been absolute. Intellectual property rights often prevail over an author's "creative license."

Now Available - 2005 First Steps Magazine Startup Kit.

The Kit is comprised of resources to help you launch a new magazine or improve an existing title.  One of the goals of the site is to help new and existing publishers achieve success through education and support. This Startup Kit is a great first step to turning your publication idea into reality. 

If you're like most publicity seekers, you probably think one project at a time.  You've got a new product coming out in April, so you send out a release in March. You've hired a new executive, you'll put out a release when she's on board, etc.

Launch specialist Alun Probert takes a look at some of today's most successful titles and finds that, with the right formula, there's a bright future for the industry's innovators...

We're very lucky to work in an industry where, in the past ten years, we've seen some of the most mould breaking and dynamic new launches of possibly any decade. If there's one broad lesson we can learn from their varied successes, it's that there's no obvious reason why publishers can't continue to come up with great ideas that become hugely profitable, famous magazines.