Being a Better Writer: A Little Bit About Copyright · 9:01pm Aug 9th, 2021
Welcome back readers to another installment of Being a Better Writer! The last edition that will go up live, and not on a schedule, for about four weeks! That’s right, if you missed the big news post on Friday (linked here for your expanded reading pleasure) one of the upcoming things going on with me is a trip to Alaska to do a commercial fishing trip, so for the next few weeks all the posts will be scheduled to go up on their own.
Oh, and if you missed last Friday’s news post, you may have also missed Saturday’s, which featured a fun little news clip from my hometown starring yours truly. Give it a listen!
Oh, and Patreon Supporters got another preview story on Saturday as well. Go check it out!
Anyway, I’ll be spending the next few days getting a nice backlog of posts ready, and then I head out this weekend. The goal is to have 3-4 weeks of content done in advance, even though the trip might only take two weeks. With commercial fishing, you go until you’ve got the quota, so if I am gone for three or four weeks, the content pipeline won’t dry up.
Anyway, that’s the plan. So, with so much other news covered, let’s get right down to business. Now, I warn you, this post is going to probably be a bit shorter than normal. It’s a reader-requested topic, but I gathered from the way the question was phrased that the reader who asked it expected the answer to be much more complicated than it actually is.
Which honestly is to each of our favor, because copyright law and legal matters like that? They’re messy. So this being easier than expected is kind of a boon. So let’s get down to it. You’ve started writing out your story, your world and characters have taken shape.
When do you need to copyright it?
That was both A) way more information on Copyright than I expected and B) not at all the specific information I was expecting. Very nice post, Max.
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Same as posted on the other site. Now I have to ask: what information were you expecting? And thank you!
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I remember when I produced my books for the Bronycon Bookstore, I was asked what type of copyright I wanted to use, and they listed out three or four different options. I had no idea what the potential risks were for each type or which best applied to my situation, and trying to read the legalese left me with more questions than answers.
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Whoa. That is odd, though off-hand (and without even a single Google) I would assume that's because these were publications of fanfiction, correct? If so, my estimation would be that it's due to just "copyright" being not exactly standard where fanfiction works are concerned.
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I suppose that makes sense.
Top link is broken here; bottom link works still.
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Fixed! Sorry about that, and thank you for bringing it to my attention!