F148.
Poetic License vs. Fair Use
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
A lawyer well versed in fair use doctrine will moderate the panel: a publisher who has been on various sides of copyright battles and two poet/professors. The moderator will introduce fair use engaging the panelists in conversation about experience and case law. The conversation will highlight the difference between creative risks with derivative material and plagiarism to the point the artist must decide between creating or getting published. The panel will take questions from the audience.
Participants
Cathy Wittmeyer is a lawyer/engineer/poet from Buffalo, New York. She works in Dornbirn, Austria, as corporate counsel. She has her BS from the University of Dayton, her JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and her MFA from Carlow University. She is the founder of Word to Action, a poetry retreat.
Han VanderHart (she/they) is the author of the chapbook Hands like Birds and the poetry collection What Pecan Light. Han is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review and edits Moist Poetry Journal.
Gerry LaFemina, poet and fiction writer, is the author of thirteen books of fiction, poetry, prose poetry, and criticism. A former AWP board member and cofounder of the two-year caucus, he's a professor of English at Frostburg State University and he serves as a poetry mentor in the MFA Program at Carlow University.
Richard Peabody's Gargoyle Magazine (founded 1976) will release issue 75 by March 2022. He has edited (or coedited) twenty-six anthologies including Mondo Barbie and A Different Beat. His recent books include the Richard Peabody Reader and Guinness on the Quay.
Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Savage Pageant, which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 in the Boston Globe and in Hyperallergic. Her work appears in Pleiades and Verse, and she is a poetry editor for AGNI and the comics editor for Honey Literary.
