Copyright Info
As we are going to be doing some talks about copyright issues, this may be of interest.
If you are just starting out and write music, poems, stories, screenplays, etc., at some point in time, you might want to think about protecting your work. It may not seem like a big issue, but you certainly would not want to see your work copied, then becoming successful, with someone else's name attached to it!
There is no such thing as an "International copyright," that will automatically protect an author's writings throughout the world.
Having said that, there is some good info on the US copyright website, which also lists info for different countries, try this link: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl100.html
In addition, you can always register something you write online with the WGA, Writer's Guild of America at: http://www.wga.org/ you do not have to be a member or in the States to do this and it is a nominal fee. On the right hand side of the page it says, "register your script." In reality, you can register ANY form of intellectual property at WGA.
The WGA registration gives you a receipt that can be printed immediately, so that there is a record of the project recorded there. This would be helpful in establishing a chain of ownership based on dates if you needed it. In the event that you showed someone your work and they used your project after the date which is listed from the WGA, it helps create a paper trail concerning dates and ownership.
If you are just starting out and write music, poems, stories, screenplays, etc., at some point in time, you might want to think about protecting your work. It may not seem like a big issue, but you certainly would not want to see your work copied, then becoming successful, with someone else's name attached to it!
There is no such thing as an "International copyright," that will automatically protect an author's writings throughout the world.
Having said that, there is some good info on the US copyright website, which also lists info for different countries, try this link: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl100.html
In addition, you can always register something you write online with the WGA, Writer's Guild of America at: http://www.wga.org/ you do not have to be a member or in the States to do this and it is a nominal fee. On the right hand side of the page it says, "register your script." In reality, you can register ANY form of intellectual property at WGA.
The WGA registration gives you a receipt that can be printed immediately, so that there is a record of the project recorded there. This would be helpful in establishing a chain of ownership based on dates if you needed it. In the event that you showed someone your work and they used your project after the date which is listed from the WGA, it helps create a paper trail concerning dates and ownership.
posted by Michelle Nickelson at 11:19 PM
1 Comments:
Very useful info mn,
Found you through your comment on my post about stopping war.
The Buddha story was very insightful - loved it.
I am experimenting with short stories for short films these days.
We seem to have much in common - let's meet under a Banyan tree sometime ;-)
farrukh
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