On the Writing Life - Essays and Correspondence

Subject Areas

Freelancing and The Practice of Craft Intellectual Property Reports from the Field Assorted Correspondence A Professional Autobiography

 Freelancing and The Practice of Craft:

• Damn the Neuroses! Full Speed Ahead! Or, Thoughts on the Free-lance Life (1981)

• An Arranged Marriage: My Life with the Computer (1994)

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Intellectual Property:

• Who Owns the Facts? (1991)

• Copyright -- or Wrong? Intellectual Property in the Electronic Age (1991)

• Marginalizing the Maker: The Status of Authorship in the Digital Epoch (1991)

• An Open Letter on Intellectual Property (2000)

• A String Around My Finger (2001)

• WHy Fight to Retain Your Rights? (2005)

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Reports from the Field:

• The American Writers Congress: A Personal Account (1982)

• Awarding the Prix D'Arles: A Book Contest Judge Tells All (1989)

• Tasini vs. Times 1: Tasini vs. Times Heads for Supreme Court (2000)

• Tasini vs. Times 2: The Supremes in Springtime (2001)

• Tasini vs. Times 3: Letter from: New York, No. 12 (2001)

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 Assorted Correspondence (Published and Unpublished) on Writing Matters:

• Between Author and Agent: A Cautionary/Epistolary Tale (1988)

• A Writers' Syndicate? (1990)

• Between Author and Editor (1994)

• Businesslike Billing (1995)

• Don't Give the Bad Guys a Free Forum (1995)

• Each writer must fight for copyright (1998)

• Those Leftover Books (1999)

• Freelance/Temp Work (2000)

• Warning on Resales (2000)

• Internet Content (2000)

• Alternatives to Lawsuits (2000)

• Droit Morale (2000)

• A Golden Age of First Books of Poetry (2000)

• Tasini vs. New York Times (2001)

• Timely Payment (2001)

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Copyright Violation in Action: The Case of the Paul Kopeikin Gallery (2001-2004)

• Discovering the offense/initial correspondence (2001-2003).

• The "apology" from Paul Kopeikin (2001-2003).

• Letter from Marc J. Kopeikin, Esq., to A. D. Coleman (2001).

• AIPAD Advisory on Electronic Rights.

• Response from the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (2001).

• Reply to the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (2001).

• Letter from Marc J. Kopeikin, Esq., to AIPAD (2001).

• Letter from Marc J. Kopeikin, Esq., to National Writers Union (NWU) (2001).

• Letter from Grievance Committee of National Writers Union (NWU) to Marc. J. Kopeikin, Esq. (2002)

• Lawsuit filed against the Paul Kopeikin Gallery; process served on him at AIPAD's Photo Show 2003.

• Responses from AIPAD members (2003).

• Epilogue: New York State Civil Court Case ends, 2004.

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 A Professional Autobiography:

• Preface to Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-1978

• Foreword to Tarnished Silver: After the Photo Boom, Essays and Lectures 1979-1989

• Preface to Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community

• Foreword to Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media and Lens Culture

• Foreword to The Digital Evolution: Visual Communication in the Electronic Age, Essays, Lectures and Interviews 1967-1998

• Preface to A. D. Coleman: Writings on Photography and Related Matters, 1968-1995, A Bibliography