Tag Archive | Copyright
Copyright: What’s the Big Deal?— By Julie Barlow
Originally posted on QWF Writes:
The Federal government is in the process of revising the Copyright Act. If you don’t think that matters to writers, think again. I’m always surprised to see blank stares on writers’ faces when I launch into a speech about copyright. Some of them aren’t clear why copyright really matters. Others…
My Journey into Creating a Publishing Company…Part One
Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
If I go back to when I first started writing in 2012 I didn’t know squat about publishing, never mind needing lessons in grammar, and the person’s voice. Like many others out there I tried traditional publishing. You remember the first publisher of Fifty Shades? It was an…
Uploading your Self-Published eBook to Lulu
Originally posted on Plaisted Formatting & Genealogy:
Welcome to the world of LULU Uploading. As promised here is the second installment about UPLOADING…This time it’s for eBOOKS. WE start with picking what we wish to publish, of course this time it is the ebook we wish to do. So follow the images and I’ll explain…
Do I Need to Copyright My Book?
Originally posted on How to Make, Market and Sell Ebooks:
Like ISBN, copyright questions are common and the legalities of it can be complex. In most cases, copyright is something an author won’t need to spend much time worrying about. The tasks to copyright a book are straightforward, starting with simply writing a book. If you…
4 Easy Steps to Seriously Awesome Blog Post Photos
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
Blog post pictures. They are, if you don’t know how to do them, a bit of a mystery. I have had a couple of lovely compliments recently about the photos I use to start my posts, (thank you, and blush!). But what it’s resulted in, is me sharing my photo…
Want to know how to protect your writing?
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Protection is as important as production. What is needed to protect your work? Find out how to protect your writing. Molly Greene: Writer Blogger & Author, Gen Delacourt Mysteries, has a very informative blog post regarding Estate planning basics for writers. Whether you have already published or still in the…
Authors Answer 30 – The Validity of Fanfiction
Originally posted on I Read Encyclopedias for Fun:
Anyone read Fifty Shades of Grey? That bestselling novel was originally a Twilight fanfiction. It’s been overwhelmingly considered a terrible book with bad writing and horrible editing. Incredible that it became a movie. Does this make fanfiction a valid form of literature? Well, this week’s question comes…
Respecting the Creative Works of Others
Originally posted on Author Mark W Sasse:
A group of my students was given two tasks. First, how do people use digital media without giving the creator proper credit or compensation. The ways were many: streaming video from non-paying sights, grabbing photos off the web for a project, buying pirated DVDs (a huge market right…
Variations of a beauty lover
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does. ~ Allen Ginsberg I’ve made liquid nicknames for the incomparable feelings of Earth the peculiar surrealism of suffering a dance of cycles and poverty in seasons and prosperity in…
THE DAWN SINGERS
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
After all these collisions with the abrupt license to write these dreamy plagiarisms as if words belonged to a mouth the month of poetry became a lifetime of habit, a sport of inarticulate genius of hope strewn in museums blue transparent halls of journals I still mutter quietly spells for…
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