For the month of August, our guest is Stephen Ashley. Stephen is the Teen Engagement Coordinator at the Chapel Hill Public Library, a position he has held since 2015. Before working at the Chapel Hill Public Library, he worked at Algonquin Books, a press based in Chapel Hill, as the publishing coordinator. Today we will be talking to him about what it’s like to move from working at the beginning of the publishing process, manuscript submission, to the end, distributing books to the public.
A Crash Course on the Public Domain Care of Mickey Mouse
After 95 years of perhaps the strictest copyright protection this side of bulletproof glass, Mickey Mouse is now entering the public domain – sort of. The original “Steamboat Willy” version of Walt Disney’s crown jewel of intellectual property officially enters the...