Copyright: How
to Protect Your Work
Self published writers should be concerned about copyright
infringement. If they have something valuable to say, it could be
stolen by a more seasoned writer, or publisher, and made to look like
they wrote it.
Writers have identifying patterns, even in the way they write, their
tone that defines them from others. An expert could sift out the
difference with little or no effort.
The answer is not the so called “poor man’s
copyright.” This is a method where one puts their
manuscript into an envelope and mails it to themselves.
It is not clear where that idea originated but whether it will hold up
in court or not, talk to someone in the legal field.
Protecting your work from being stolen is what you want to do. As a
self published author you don’t have the benefit of what the
big
boys have: fact checkers, editors, people who are making sure you are
not infringing on another writer’s territory.
In that case you should take heed of how you are preparing your work.
Composition styled notebooks are a great tool. That notebook cannot be
tampered with. You want to be able to show how the created piece
started, by date, etc., the ideas that eventually manifested into your
published work.
In other words, you should document your creative piece along the way.
Creating using a composition notebook, may not be your cup of tea but
you want to have everything working for you to prove your ownership.
Please hear this, God did not just give one person an idea. You will
find others with the same idea but different variations. Sometimes the
receiver of the idea acts and other times they don’t, at
least
not until someone else acts.
Getting into good habits will certainly go a long way in protecting
your rights. Then when you see or hear of that work that sounds so much
like your idea, now you are armed and ready to fight, if you really
believe it was stolen from you.
Filing the formal paperwork and then a lawsuit will increase your
potential win.
Feel safer and confident about the theft of your work. Need to file a
copyright?
Contact us at print2publish@gmail.com.
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