Safeguard Your Creative Ideas: How to Legally Protect Your Unpublished Work
You work hard as a self-published author, developing your creative ideas and eventually sharing them with the world. You might want to protect your work as you go. Here’s everything you need to know about safeguarding your unpublished literary works.
How Does Intellectual Property and Copyright Work for Self-Published Authors?
Technically, a self-published work is copyrighted by law when it exists in a physical form. For instance, when you write or type your story on paper, you don’t need to do anything else to protect it.
Copyright protection of intellectual property applies to books, essays, blogs, poetry and articles — […]
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Logan Fret is a relatively new author, with only 5 works published. A musician by trade, he spent a great deal of his time reading in hotel rooms between shows. One winter when he was putting his motorcycle away for the year, he searched for books related to motorcycles and motorcycle clubs. With nothing to read, he decided to write a book himself. After completing 4 books in the Three Rings series, he tried his hand at the horror genre with Until It Rings. Since releasing those books, Logan took time to work on a book that deals with […]
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