Know Your Publishing Rights

By James R. Tuck, @JamesTuckwriter

Part of the How They Do It Series (Monthly contributor)

Last go around we talked about the business of writing and my opinion on FTL markets.

This time we are going to talk about the business of writing but we are going to move up the ladder to small press anthologies and a bit that can apply to any contract for longer works at publishers of varying sizes.

Today we talk about rights.

Copyright Demystified

By Dario Ciriello

Part of the Indie Authors Series

Since the 1976 Copyright Act, a work (in our case, a book or piece of fiction) no longer has to be registered with the US Copyright Office to enjoy protection under federal law. But there are distinct benefits to registering your copyright.

Basic Copyright

Anything original that you write has automatic and immediate copyright protection the moment it is “fixed in a tangible form of expression”—in other words, written down, even in electronic form.