{"id":258,"date":"2008-01-15T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/a-copyrighting-expert\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T06:32:19","slug":"a-copyrighting-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/a-copyrighting-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"A copyrighting expert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, I wrote a post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/19\/copyright-or-copywrite\/\" target=\"_blank\">difference between copyright and copywrite<\/a>. If you think about the actual words, it isn&#8217;t hard to tell them apart either (copy<strong>right<\/strong> is about <strong>rights<\/strong> for instance.)<\/p>\n<p>Yet I have just come across a website with the following sentence:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">we have combined many years of copyrighting skills to create magical letters for every occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As much as the misuse of copyrighting annoys me, it being misused in a sentence where the writer claims to be an expert writer\u00a0 is shocking. Of course, I am also curious as how to someone combines years to create anything.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get on my soap box about people posing as experts and (in my opinion) trying to fool people*, let me give you a much better version of the above sentence:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Together, we have many years of copywriting\u00a0experience\u00a0which we use to create magical letters for every occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* I don&#8217;t know anything else about the writing skills of the site using the above sentence so I am not commenting on their level of expertise or claiming they are unethical. It is just a general comment that I hate people presenting themselves as more than they are and errors such as this are sometimes an indicator of such behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, I wrote a post about the difference between copyright and copywrite. If you think about the actual words, it isn&#8217;t hard to tell them apart either (copyright is about rights for instance.) Yet I have just come across a website with the following sentence: we have combined many years of copyrighting skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[486,541,542,124],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","tag-appropriate","tag-copyright","tag-copywright","tag-use"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}