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Comment by Emily Kennedy on April 20, 2012 at 6:53am

Dianne, I don't think this site gets visited very often, if dates below are any indication.  I sent my work to the Library of Congress copyright office, and it took about a year to get notification.  However, I was informed that my copyright was legal from the day I sent the manuscript.  That all having been said, Kristen Lamb, who is a published writer, editor, and blogger with a huge following, told me recently that even mentioning this to agents reveals that you are naive and do not understand the law.  She said your work is legally yours and is protected just by being on your computer or wherever you have it stored.  I'll have to look for her exact words.

Comment by Dianne Baines on April 20, 2012 at 5:07am

Hello ladies, for those of you that I haven't met my name is Dianne and I hail from Queensland in Australia. There that's the intros over, I would like to know the answer to a question that you'll probably think is rather naive however I would like to know how to go about this copyright thing. How do I copy right my work? thanks.

Comment by LUCILLE RAINS JOYNER on October 13, 2011 at 10:08am

Will someone with copyright knowledge please tell me if it's legal to include an encouraging sentence from the letter of a famous writer on your back cover?

If it's illegal to mention a famous person's name, can you mention the encouragement by a famous person without mentioning the name?

I need to know right  away.

 

Comment by Monica Epstein on March 15, 2011 at 6:52pm

I have no legal experience so this is coming from my gut only. Maybe tell them if they don't remove it from the website they'll be hearing from your lawyer. If you gave them permission to post it they might argue, but it shouldn't be posted in editable form.

Comment by Laura Kotti on March 14, 2011 at 8:23pm

I placed second at a conference for top paper, and also received a "publishing opportunity." They in actuality posted a Word document of my essay--accessible to anyone and with the abilities to manipulate it. I asked them to remove my essay from the website, which I was under the impression they did.

 

I have checked their website and seen no link to my paper; however, I Googled my paper and found a direct link to the Word document of it! I just emailed the people in charge of the conference about this and have yet to hear. I am very nervous given this essay is actually the first chapter to my masters thesis. What should I do if they do not remove this link? Thanks!

Comment by Zetta Brown on February 5, 2011 at 2:49pm

EPIC - the Electronically Published Internet Coalition has their annual EPICon in March. This year it's in Williamsburg, VA.
Here's a list of key speakers including a rep from the Library of Congress and the Copyright Alliance
http://ebooks.epicauthors.com/?p=433

Comment by Nonqaba waka Msimang on January 24, 2011 at 6:16am

There are three sections i read carefully in the contract to publish Sweetness:

1. subsidiary rights

2. author's copyright protection

3. Term of Contract

www.sweetnessthenovel.com

Comment by LUCILLE RAINS JOYNER on October 15, 2010 at 5:41am

I just received an email from Tate Publishing offering a publishing contract for me to review. Is there anything I should look out for? Can anyone give me some advice?

Comment by LUCILLE RAINS JOYNER on August 31, 2010 at 9:51am

If you've written a nonfiction story and decide to enter it in a contest, do you lose your rights to it. What should the writer do to protect him/herself?

Comment by Pauline Frederica Kiernan on August 24, 2010 at 6:18am

Comment by Pauline Frederica Kiernan 20 hours ago
Delete Comment Hi Nils
I am a Shakespeare scholar of some world wide distinction.
A Twitterer, username IAM_SLUTSPEARE, has been quoting verbatim and continuously copy from my book Filthy Shakespeare without permission. The book is based on serious scholarship which demonstrates the ways in which Shakespeare used sexual puns for serious dramatic purposes - to explore and intensify issues such as political corruption, psychological torment, complex moral issues etc.

The Tweets run on in succession in the same order as the book so I imagine the offender thinks the 140 character limit will prevent copyright infringement. I own the copyright to the material. The book was published in UK by Quercus and in US by Penguin.

I have, I think, followed the Twitter instructions for ordering a take down on the site, giving all the required information.

My real concern is that my words have been taken completely out of their scholarly context and reduced to quite odious smutty interpretation. My words are being used as prompts for the most disgusting ideas. To get an idea of how completely repulsive his group of tweeters are the followers today have talked about King Lear's daughters and Cordelia and how 'I like 'em young', and 'I smell sex and candy' - two of the more tame comments!

The IAM_SLUTSPEARE gives his name as Filthy Shakespeare - so he's stolen the title of my book too. I'm wondering if his actions constitute some kind of libel because quoting so extensively from my book, using the title of it for his name, makes it look as though I have permitted him to do all this. And certainly it is all bringing my scholarly reputation into disrepute.

I have to say I spent the weekend feeling shaken and angry. Every time I went back to the computer - there were more paragraphs from my book posted up. I began to feel unclean and as though I were being stalked.

I would be so grateful, Nils, if there is any advice you could give me about how to dealing with a situation which I am finding deeply distressing.
Many thanks in advance,
Pauline
She Writes Salonista

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