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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Do i have to have a copyrite for my book? authors please answer!!!!?Question: Do i have to have a copyrite for my book!? authors please answer!!!!!? if you have published a book, please answer my question!.
do i have to get a copyrite for my book!? People say i dont but if someone were to copy my book, i wouldn't be able to prove it was mine! help! also, if i get a copyrite, does one cover for only one book, or does it cover for many!? HELP!!!!!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think it would be a good idea if you visit a similar question: http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!. Here is what one of the answerers said: According to the newest revisions of the Copyright Laws, you already own the copyrights!. You have owned them since the minute you wrote the book!. The safest way to protect that copyright is not to post any of your material online!. Once you do, you subject yourself to plagiarism in all languages and from every corner of the world!. There is just no way for you to protect yourself from it!. The so called "Poorman's Copyright" where you mail yourself a copy of the work is useless!. Not worth the stamp!. It proves nothing other than the fact that on a specific date, you were in possession of specific pages!. I could mail myself a copy of Old Man and the Sea, but it wouldn't make me Hemingway!. It doesn't stand up in court without a VERY expensive lawyer and other evidence!. There are just too many ways to beat it!. Here is the correct information!. You send your material to a publisher or agent without a copyright or the traditional C mark!. That only annoys publishers and agents!. It sends a wrong message!. It tells them that you want them to help you and yet you do not trust them not to steal from you!. NO such thing will occur if you go through the proper channels and research anyone you are sending material to and practice use of submission guidelines as instructed!. Your work will go through many edits once you have signed a Standard Writers Contract!. You will have no say over those edits!. You have sold your work!. However, since each time a single word has been changed, it becomes a new document, it would be wasteful to obtain a Copyright until all editing is completed!. When you have been given your galley and read it and proofed it and the book is ready for printing, the publisher will, at their expense, obtain a copyright for you!. That is the way it is done professionally!. To do anything else indicates to a publisher or agent that you are an amateur and unprofessional and that is not the image you want to convey!. That should help!. Pax-C Www@QuestionHome@Com Your book has an implicit copyright by virtue of you being the author!. Proof of authorship is relatively easy, by time/date stamps on your files, any notes that you have, plus the fact that it's your voice, something you could duplicate much easier than someone copying you!. The chance of someone 'stealing' your work is extremely small!. Mostly because other writers always think their ideas (and writing) are better than anybody else's, so they're not going to look for yours!. Stop worrying!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |