Just as musicians and filmmakers have had to deal with the suppression of their rights to create and distribute their work by non-traditional means in recent years, writers are now getting their turn. Books weren’t the easiest thing to copy in the past; it was easier to just buy or borrow a book than to copy War and Peace one page at a time on a Xerox machine. Because of this (and many other reasons), publishing has always been a slow industry with gatekeepers deciding who got in…and who stayed out.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Copyright and coercion …
… Writing Without Copyright. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
As a copyright attorney and just so it is clear (but this is not legal advice) copyright vests automatically as if by magic when something original and fixed in a tangible medium -- which is a very low bar -- is created. Your readers, creative types all I am sure, should understand that. Registration, which the author of the link refers to, gives additional benefits...but is not necessary to secure copyright.
ReplyDelete