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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Arnold, I can understand the feelings you must be experiencing. How satisfied are you with this reply? Except one, which right away I recognized as preying. Everyone returned the copy. Yesterday, she remarked to the group that her published friend said that any unpublished work is free for stealing and said with the emphasis that she could do what she wanted.
I had already planned on bringing a contract to the group, but if she refuses to sign, I have four other witness to the original authorship. Do you have any recommendations, because I will be a momma bear on my story and bring a wolf down. Carolyn, I think you need to send her a private message telling her that she is dead wrong about unpublished work being free for stealing. You own the copyright to your creative work the minute you create it.
If you want to enforce your rights in the United States, you need to file a copyright application and obtain a registration certificate. I would make it clear to her that you intend to enforce your rights. Give her the opportunity to do the right thing, return your work to you, and commit to not using it. Thank you! Mine is a question…. People hacking into your computer even when you are protected by security software and stealing your intellectual property? I appreciate the time it will take and I am happy TO send you a copy of the book when it is published.
Hi Kathryn, I am wondering if a copyright symbol at the end of an article which may be a chapter in my book that I am working on is sufficient protection? Is it advisable to offer readers on my person email list or LinkedIn community — sneak peeks, blog posts or previews of chapters to engage interest?
It sounds like I may risk having my work stolen. Should I avoid this and just write the book before sharing content or is there a safe way to engage my community to build interest in my book for early sales for the first printing. What type of professional services might I need to be in the know? Thank you.
I just had my backpack stolen—including a flash drive with published and incomplete books on it. One thing we do in music is we send by certified mail to our selves the demo with a note explaining the reasons why, when we received that on the mail we never gonna opened, that envelope will be kept in a safe place just in case someday might be needed to be use in court cause the delivery or dispatch date is on the USPS label as a proof also.
A sealed envelope that you have mailed to yourself is worthless in court. Any other copies? A backup? A printed out version? Thank you for your sage advice. I understand that I will not be entitled to compensation because of the use of any such similar or identical material if such material is created independently by — or its clients.
I hereby release — from any and all liability for loss of, or damage to, any copies of my Material that I may submit to -. The above appears to be so draconian. If the genuine author has the copyright but signs this agreement, does the original author sign away right to sue for theft?
Thank You. I am a 13 year old aspiring writer and I have been writing a manuscript lately. I have been anxious about the signal because I thought I was the only one that could access the word document. I am worried someone might have stolen my work, so is there a way to insure my precious work is safe? I have written a manuscript and I would like to publish, but before that, I want to protect it.
Could you please tell me what are the steps to do that and please the cost of it. I wanted to acknowledge you for setting up this website and responding to so many valid and interesting questions. Can you clarify? Professional authors are mostly well-read, level-headed, business-like graduates.
Generally we have no trouble understanding contract law and legal jargon. I should be very grateful if this could be removed from an otherwise excellent resource for creative people. Have you read the other comments related to this article? Not all professional or aspiring authors are well-read, level-headed, business-like graduates. Some folks had a hard time understanding what was written in the paragraphs above, never mind contract law and legal jargon.
Hi, I have some reflective writings I would like to sell on a website I created. How do I know that they are protected by the Copyright Law? If I write my story as my lived experiences and what I believe happened. Does this protect me from legal action against me? Make sure you read about that.
It has nothing to do with copyright. Research this before you go further. When writing a memoir, you need to consider how to reduce your risk of being sued by someone who does not remember events the way you do.
Any advice for a first time writer? One by a old boyfriend, and one by a friend I never knew was jealous and ripped my works up and thrower them in a dumpster I heard from a mutual friend. I understand the standard practice when approaching potential publishers is to send a cover letter, the first three completed chapters, and an outline for the remainder of the book.
How might I prevent the publisher from giving my idea to another, preferred writer? Paula, You cannot control the nefarious behavior of other people. You can only control the actions you take. Research the publishers you plan to send your work to. Review this page from Science Fiction Writers of America to learn how to detect bad practices and publishers who engage in them: Thumbs Down Publishers.
Thank you for this article. Perhaps, I possess a very jaded attitude towards individuals in the Internet communities and culture. But in social media or blog forum posting I would think contractual agreements would be impossible for those situations. So, if my works are unpublished and stolen from a follower, how do writers protect themselves in these situations?? Is there even a way to protect your works when posting in those environments?? Or are the only safe ways to keep your works in the professional realm where forms of contact agreements have been arranged??
Great question…much has been on my mind as well. You are NOT paranoid…better to be a bit and save your work, than have it stolen by someone else. Research and knowledge of the process is the best relief of fear. Good luck on your projects!! Hello, I am currently writing my life story. A large portion of it got into the hands of someone who was a friend and later became an adversary because of criminal activity on part of their family.
I am trying to insure my story is not published or distributed without my permission. What can I do to protect my work? Hi Kathryn. Thank you for creating this informational source. I have a number of thought provoking statements I want to put on t-shirts and sell the t-shirts. In these other questions, people mostly speak about drafts of stories or whatever. Is it possible to copyright these kind of statements I want protected? In a typical arrangement between a writer and a publisher, which party retains the rights to the finished work?
I keep the rights to the original manuscript. What about sending a copy of the unpublished draft to a lawyer, or have it notarized for verification of your unpublished work? The second most powerful way to protect your work is to file a copyright application on it. Then you are in a position to issue take downs under the DMCA if someone posts your work online and claims it as their own. Neither Amazon, Facebook, nor Google care about a notarized document, though they may care about what a lawyer might say.
But really, they want to see a copyright registration certificate. Kathryn, thank you for the above advice. May I enquire as to your thoughts on protecting my finished, unpublished manuscript prior to sending to literary agents whilst seeking representation? With thanks in advance. In terms of your Copyright Practice Tip, why is it best to finalize, publish, then file for the copyright registration?
For purposes of a published work as opposed to an unpublished work , the year is a reference to the year of publication, not the month and day. They'll be somewhere on they're computer. If you stream the video instead of hosting the file, you can make it a bit more difficult for users to leech them.
Or, you could do something horrible like embed images in a flash object. Don't post them to your site. Otherwise it is not possible. Chris Ballance Chris Ballance Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Sampson Sampson k 72 72 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Open the website via window. Disable right-clicks via JavaScript not recommended due to all the side-effects on usability Load the page's HTML code from another file which may check for a specific referer or which may be ROT13 via JavaScript, so it's harder to access the source code.
Cut an image into parts, so it takes some extra work to reconstruct the whole image Add onmousedown events to images, e. Deliver the image via server script e. Videos Stream videos to prevent simple downloading via URL. Wrap videos into a Flash movie. Use some nasty format that supports DRM. Convert texts to images this may decrease display quality , SVGs or Flash Again, I repeat that none of this will stop an experienced user from grabbing the content e.
Thank you for any other ideas to complement the above list! BurninLeo BurninLeo 3, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. Flanagan A. Flanagan 1, 8 8 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges.
Philosophy is fine unless you have spent time and money to make an excellent product photo only to find that some rat on another continent who doesn't offer customer support has appropriated your photo art and is undercutting your prices. People in the business of paid videos o photos web apps, will always try to protect his stuffs.
Just see how hard is for a "normal" user to download a video from the video URL in YouTube, even that they are on the publicity business — John Balvin Arias. Rostami 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Dan Diplo Dan Diplo If that's the case, and you are open to server side code, I believe this might work: Create a page that accepts a numeric id, maps it to a server file path, opens that file, writes the binary directly to the response stream.
On the page request, generate a bunch of random ids, and map them to the actual media urls, and store that mapping object server side somewhere in session? Render your pages with your media links pointing to the new media page with the appropriate id as a query string argument.
Clear the mapping object and generate all new links on every postback. This : won't stop people from downloading from within your page definitely isn't as lightweight as standard HTML and has it's own set of issues.
As many have said, you can't stop someone from downloading content. You just can't. But you can make it harder. David Wolever David Wolever k 83 83 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Badfish Badfish. Jordan Jordan 31 1 1 bronze badge. This is how I do it in case anyone in the future is wondering. I put this in the. This approach was previously recommended on stackoverflow [here] stackoverflow.
Others reported success with it. Right-click blocks are horribly annoying I want to right-click a link and choose "Open Link in new Tab", for example.
Right-click blocks are easily circumvented by simply turning off JavaScript in your browser temporarily. Also, I have to agree wit' vit: they really are horribly annoying. Jeff Siver Jeff Siver 7, 28 28 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.
Put your image or video in flash format. Works great. Ferrari Ferrari 19 1 1 bronze badge. Is there a tool that runs on linux server that converts mp3 to swf? TimHayes TimHayes 3, 19 19 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Goody S. Goody 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.
DRM solutions are available today. It makes the video viewable but not downloadable. Check out this. Hope it's helpful.
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