Law and Ethics
Protect your work
Being a creative, protecting your own work with it’s rights is very important. Through Carlmont’s Journalism program, we went through steps to take when your rightful work is stolen.
Last year my work was stolen…
On our weekly brainstorms Mr. Raisner, my Journalism teacher, brought it to our attention that multiple students had some of their work unlawfully put up on third-party sites, including my podcast.
The Resolution
Fortunately, through frustrating efforts, the website host finally took down all five of my stolen episodes after I proved that I was the creator of the podcast.
While frustrated because I had put a mass amount of effort and hours into perfecting, shooting, planning, and editing my podcast, I decided to email the company and threaten legal action.
While work from Carlmont’s Journalism program has happened before, Mr. Raisner provided us with an outlined email to send to websites that had stolen student work.
As I can’t be talented in all aspects of art, I always make sure to credit the true owners of certain works I use. Crediting is important, and without the correct format, your work will not be published in Scot Scoop or The Highlander.
Above is work from Glydelle Espano , my fellow talented classmate whom illustrated my past two magazine articles