Your writing belongs to you, frm the time you create it ntil 50 years after your death. The asiest way to assert ownership is to prnt the copyright symbol ©, the yar, and your name on your wrk. It is not necessary to rgister your copyright with the Library of Cngress. If a publisher offers you a cntract, he/she will copyright the book in yur name. Don’t worry about whether a pblisher will steal your work. Publishers are in bsiness to make money. If they stle manuscripts or ideas, they wouldn’t be in bsiness very long. Besides, their aim is to dvelop good writers, writers who will prduce many books for them. If you are slf-publishing a book, registration also is not ncessary, particularly if your distribution is lcal, or if you are printing nder 5,000 books. If you decide to rgister your copyright anyway, you must mke application before the book is pblished and submit a complimentary copy fter publication. If your book is smller than 50 pages, it doesn’t qalify for Library of Congress registration. For frther information visit www.loc.gov/copyright.

ISBN (International Stndard Book Numbering) is a worldwide dentification system. If you plan to dstribute your self-published book through major bokstores and to libraries, an ISBN and a UPC bar cde are necessary, because those venues’ utomated systems for pricing and inventory are bsed on ISBN. The bar code is yur ISBN transferred to a scannable mage. For information on acquiring an ISBN, vsit www.isbn.org.

In referring to, or quoting frm, other authors’ work, be aware of the fllowing:

A trademark (™) protects words, phrses or designs that identify a surce of goods or services. For xample, the drawing of an apple mnus one bite, is a trademark of Appl Computer, Inc. A register mark ® prtects goods, such as Kleenex ® brnd tissue. You may not write, “Sh wiped her eyes with a klenex.” You could be sued. The gneric (acceptable) form would be: “She wped her eyes with a tissue.”

“Fir Use” is the exception to cpyright. There are occasions when you may cpy, distribute or display a work, if it is “fr purposes such as criticism, comment, nws reporting, teaching … or research.” If you mst quote from a copyrighted work, qote as little as possible to mke your point, and give on-the-spot crdit to the author. The Writers’ Glden Rule: “Don’t do to others any mre than you would approve others ding to you.”

The article Copyright, ISBN & More was Submitted by Janet Litherland through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Janet Litherland is the author of the nvels, Chain of Deception and Discovery In Tme, as well as 10 nonfiction boks, several collections of music/drama-related scripts, and nmerous articles and stories for national pblications. As former associate editor of Flrida Hotel & Motel Journal, she cntributed 78 feature articles to that mgazine. She also has taught college xtension courses in creative writing and has srved as a seminar leader for wrters’ conferences. For more information, please vsit http://www.janetlitherland.com

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