The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know

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• Author: Stephen Fishman
• Edition: 10 Pap/Cdr
• Release: 2008-09-15
• Format: Paperback (432 pages)
• ISBN 10: 1413308937
• ISBN 13: 9781413308938
• List Price: $39.99

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Book Description: Protect your written works with copyright, easily and legally! In the Information Age, writers need to take steps to protect their hard work. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to get the job done. Inside, you'll find the essential information and forms you need to protect all types of written expression under copyright law. Let The Copyright Handbook show you how to: register your work maximize copyright protection use a copyright notice transfer ownership of copyright avoid infringement deal with infringers understand the "fair use" rule get permission to use copyrighted work, and profit from your copyright. The 10th edition has been completely updated to provide the latest case law and copyright regulations, and includes new information about electronically filing for copyright and expanded coverage of Internet works, such as blogs. The CD-ROM provides over 30 up-to-date legal and copyright forms. Sample Forms 01. Single unpublished work (a novel); single author 02. Single published work; single author; photos registered separately by photographer 03. Single published work; five joint authors; publisher acquired all copyrights 04. Single work made for hire; previously published under another title and revised; a derivative work 05. Published book; derivative work based on previously published article; joint authors: one the author of the text, the other the photographer; text and photos registered together as a single unit of publication 06. Single published work; publisher acquired all rights in text; text and work for hire cover art and copy registered together as a single unit of publication 07. Published compilation (anthology); publisher registers for the authors 08. Single author; contribution to collective work 09. Group of contributions to periodicals in a 12-month period; a single author 10. Original screenplay by a single author 11. Unpublished song lyric; single author 12. Three monthly issues of a monthly magazine registered as a group on Form SE/Group 13. Single magazine issue 14. Single issue of a magazine published three times a year; single author; not a work made for hire