Iberian Horse Worldwide
Publishing

IberianHorse-Worldwide as a Group encourages creative input. Among us are published authors and established producers.We believe in an open sharing.

Real People - Real Stories

As a preview, I'm delighted to share a story from the Group:
Rita's Ride on the Beach - Dream or Nightmare?

March 2008: Equally delighted to begin with a series of JB's poems.
Any errors of layout or spelling are mine alone.

First poem now showing:
The Turning

Our Ethos
We welcome people for whom the Iberian horse forms a point of the intersection with their own creativity as

• writer
• equestrian
• film maker
• artist
• liver of life
• your individuality

We will be compiling and publishing collections of the work of the Group.

IberianHorse-Worldwide Publishing
Copyright ©

Copyright, as a whole and as it relates to the Group works, is an area we'll be addressing as we progress. It is to be perceived through the group ethic of working to the mutual good, and supporting one another.

For the moment, it is understood that all works presented and posted to the Group - written, visual, audio - are the copyright works of the one presenting them. By presenting them to the Group, permission is given for publication on the IberianHorse-Worldwide Group pages. If any individual member wishes to reproduce these works, permission must be asked of the author.

Thoughts about Copyright

This is from a comment re YouTube, and about people who are making videos using pirated video clips and pieces of music. It applies equally to other media - visual, audio and written.

• It doesn't matter whether or not it contains a copyright notice - it is still copyrighted.
• It doesn't matter whether or not you give credit to the owner/author/songwriter - it is still copyrighted.
• It doesn't matter that you are not selling it for money - it is still copyrighted.
• It doesn't matter if you
  • taped it off cable
  • videotaped your TV screen
  • downloaded it from some other website
  it is still copyrighted, and requires the copyright owner's permission to distribute.
• It doesn't matter whether other similar videos appear on our site - it is still copyrighted.
• It doesn't matter if you created a video made of short clips of copyrighted content - even though you edited it together, the content is still copyrighted.

Reprint of Weblog entry from 2006.

How do you price thinking? Can you put a value on creativity?

These thoughts were triggered by a discussion I recently was in concerning copyright - and especially intellectual copyright. The proliferation of the internet has made this of more pertinence in today's world than at any other time in history.

More pertinence - and more concern. Because of the ease of use and publication offered by the internet, there are many, many people emerging displaying unique creative talents - in images, in writing and in new ways of presentation. At the same time, because of the internet's impartial equalisation of ease of access, there are unfortunately those who are happy to appropriate the work of the originators.

Well, you may say - does it really matter? For a creative originator - no matter how 'small' the creation may be - yes it does matter. What has gone into that photo, those words, that original approach, the research behind an article, is a part of the originator. To see it blatantly reproduced, with neither permission asked nor credit given, leaves one feeling shocked - and robbed.

The general feeling is that it will be an ongoing battle. A battle that cannot really be fought in the open, that will struggle for a legal standpoint - how do you prove plagiarism? So it is a battlefield left to the everyday creators, who will continue to believe in the majority as good, to ask their fellows to recognise justice, and to sometimes feel frustrated when faced with this piracy.

Have I been faced with it? Yes. Do I feel it was piracy? Yes. What can I do? Keep going forward.