Ventura Country Writers Club
September 14th Meeting, 7 p.m.
Borders Books in Thousand Oaks

Glenn Dickinson
Attorney to discuss
writer’s copyright in the Digital Age
at next VCWC Meeting.

The club welcomes attorney Glenn Dickinson as this month’s main speaker. Mr. Dickinson is a partner at Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP, practicing in the areas of trademark, copyright, Internet law and competitive business disputes.

He will be speaking on the topic, “The Writer’s Copyright: Protecting Works of Authorship in the Digital Age.” As he explains in the following brief summary, there are ways to preserve the rights of authorship for writers: “The author of original written works enjoys the rights of a copyright owner, which include the right to commercially exploit those works, and to prevent others from doing so. While the copyright springs into existence upon creation, registration with the U.S. Copyright Office confers important additional rights, at a relatively low cost. The Internet allows nearly instantaneous, worldwide publication of written works, raising both opportunities and perils for the copyright owner…”

Read more about Glenn Dickinson here.