Re: Monologue for Creative writing Class
- From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:49:11 -0400
In article <6EU_f.2333$BS2.841@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tanada <tanada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Singh wrote:
If I forward this to Ten Lives, would this mess up your chance of the story
getting printed in the journal? I don't want to screw it up for you.
Thank you also for saying it's okay. I'd love to see this little story help
Ten Lives get their kitties into good homes. They do such good work for the
cats, treat them like gold, and don't believe in wholesale euthanasia; even
the FIV cats are kept in a special home of their own, and not PTS unless and
until the disease has gotten to the point where human measures of care and
comfort can no longer be performed humanely.
Dumb question from the author-in-training: does owning the copyright mean,
by the law, the owner's name must appear with the the work? As in, "The
story of Joe Blow by Joe Blow, copyright 2006 by Joe Blow"?
Blessed be,
Baha
I'm not worried about getting into the school magazine. I have written
plenty of stuff they can use. My understanding on Copy Right is that it
cannot be published without my permission, usually in writing. Evelyn,
I think, is a writer's agent or editor or something literary like that.
I'd have to ask the pros about it. We don't get into publishing and
finding an agent etc. until the end of the month or so. OK, I know
there are some professionals here even with the absence of the much
missed Dave Yehuddah. Any one care to enlighten all of us who are
inexperienced at this sort of thing?
Pam S.
There is an assumption of copyright simply by writing something, but
the basic protection is to put the following words on every copy:
Copyright <year>, <your name>. All Rights Reserved.
If you can use the c-in-a-circle rather than the word "copyright", some
lawyers prefer it. Some even like the symbol and the word.
"All Rights Reserved" may not strictly be needed, but I always use it.
As explained to me, the laws of some South American countries required
it.
Once you have a common law copyright, the proof of right-to-use is on
the person that wants to use it. The presumption is that the owner has
copyright. Just for those reasons, I have to sign a contract that I am
producing a "work for hire", where copyright goes to the organization
paying me, when I'm writing paid articles.
You can get a little more protection by registering the copyright with
(in the US) the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. The rules
may have changed, but, in general, you send a form, a small fee, and
two copies of the work. The Library of Congress has first pick on
whether to retain the work, but only 20% or less actually goes into the
Library.
Remember that all these protections may take legal action to enforce.
.
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