The Writers Bridge | Copyright, Trademarks & AI Plagiarism, Oh My!

06/24/2025 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
Poetry/Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Talk

You’ve seen high-profile complaints about stolen ideas, stories and pitches—even naming traditional media outlets. You’ve also heard “that writer” complain that a big movie studio stole his totally-marketable, billion-dollar idea, and thought yeah, right.

More personally, maybe you’ve considered whether you can use a brand name in your novel, or song lyrics in your memoir. Or wondered how confident you need to be in your recall of a scene to put quotation marks around remembered dialogue. Perhaps you’re moving skeptically away from—or towards—”generative” AI. (If ChatGPT helped with the research, does it get a byline?)

With our expert guest, intellectual property lawyer and author Lisa Rayne, you’ll learn what you can and can’t do to protect your work and incorporate the work of others. We’ll discuss the key legal aspects of copyright, trademarks, and AI usage that authors should know and understand.

This is a live, FREE chat on Zoom. Sign up for the link, or catch the replay on YouTube! 

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Allison K Williams