Copyright the Documents

Source: fictionfactor.com

Its surprising that people never copyright their documents when it is one of the basic ways to provide protection for your work as an author.

Copyright is represented by the symbol © followed by the name of the author or publisher and the year in which it was published.

Why Copyright?

Copyright gives the author or the publisher the legal ownership rights to control production, sale and distribution of particular documents or images.

Protecting your intellectual property is a vital part ofcreating and selling your own digitally published works.

Registering your copyright establishes a public record of your copyright worldwide.

When you run an online business be aware of the copyright laws in other countries and compare them with your own countrys laws and how they may also apply to you.

The information in government documents is usually not copyright and available for use by everyone, but always check to be sure.

When you have created your e-book you do not want an un-authorised party to illegally copy your work or claim it as theirs.

Along with the other pirating proliferating on the net the stealing of ebooks is growing at an alarming rate.

There have been many cases where authors have found their work on other author's sites under the name of the other author. If your work is copyrighted you can at least legally sue for copyright infringement.

You can password protect your e-book and other documents to make cyber piracy of your work more difficult, but PCs and the document compiler software you use can never provide total security against the determined cyber thief.

Copyright law covers most material on the Internet and extends to text and images placed on another persons web site. If a feature does not appear to have a copyright marker you should still assume it is copyright and requires permission before using.