Article links on two topics: IP and Characters
From Rick: Honestly, not for lack of ideas but for lack of time, I haven’t been as diligent lately in doing a blog on a weekly basis. Believe it or not, I often spend the better part of a day
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Simplified intellectual property rights for writers
From Rick: Recently, my local writers group had a presentation from a lawyer on intellectual property rights focusing on copyrights and permissions. Of course, the presenter’s first words were, as you might expect, a disclaimer that anything in the presentation
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From Rick: For any would-be author, the decision to write a book falls into one of two categories: hobby or business. As soon as you decide to seek a traditional publisher, you’ve moved from hobby to business because you’ve committed
Read moreNews and updates on important topics for writers
(1) Bookstores, and Barnes & Noble in particular. In case you haven’t heard the news about B&N being up for sale, here’s Kris Rusch’s take on it and on bookstores in general and how they have applied to authors. Once
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From Rick: Those of you who have read previous blog posts here on publishing and publishers know that Scott and I are strong advocates of self-publishing, and by “self-publishing” we don’t mean paying someone to publish your book for you.
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PROTECTING YOUR COPYRIGHT (Part 2 of 2) From Rick: Last time, I painted a doom-and-gloom picture of copyrights from a publishing contract standpoint. This time, I’ll continue on a brighter note. First, let’s examine how traditional publishing differs from self-publishing
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PROTECTING YOUR COPYRIGHT (Part 1 of 2) From Rick: In the last two blogs I discussed copyrights at some length: what they are, how you get them, and what they protect. One thing I didn’t cover was how to protect
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From Rick: Last time, I covered what copyright is, what it protects, and how you acquire a copyright. The key theme of that post was that your work is protected by copyright from the moment you start to put it
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From Rick: Copyright questions come up frequently among new writers, and what surprises me is the degree of misunderstanding about copyright. Granted, one look at the copyright law is enough to scare away all but the most stalwart of individuals,
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From Rick: As more new writers indie-publish their work, I’m seeing an increase in the number of issues with copyrights and permissions as it pertains to the use of others’ work. What I’m talking about is writers using copyrighted material
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