I want to ask almost copyright if my work is printed contained by another person's book?
if i allow a person to put my photo and my art work and my quote in their book do i retain the copyright to my own work in his book? i will supply the words copyright (C) 2009 and my name to it. will this cover me? i don't want my ideas stolen etc. im gona email it back to myself formerly i email it to him to make sure its copyright protected. what do you think? im purely adding my work to his book as self promotion.
Answers:
I recommend going to the library and asking a librarian if they can tell you more or less copyright law or direct you to a good book.
(Insert usual rant roughly how copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the expression of ideas.)
You keep hold of the copyright in whatever you create unless you explicitly give or supply it to someone else. Depending on the law where you live, this transfer may enjoy to be documented in writing.
What you're doing in this case is license your work to this guy. You might want to sort out whether the license is exclusive or non-exclusive (if it's exclusive, you can't license it to anyone else while the license is in effect, if it's non-exclusive, you can), how long it lasts, and whether he can use it in anything he creates, or just in that book.
EDIT: Emailing your work to yourself as proof of authorship is even more useless than snail-mailing it to yourself. Faking your own copy of an email that appears to have been sent earlier someone else's is trivial. Your email provider might have kept a copy that you couldn't alter... but are you prepared to gamble the outcome of a lawsuit on that possibility?
I'll describe you now that e-mailing your work to yourself does not protect you from anything. This is called Poor Man's copyright and is not recognized beneath the U.S. law (source: copyright.gov - FAQs). Your work is automatically copyrighted.
What I highly suggest you do is contact a copyright lawyer and enjoy him/her draw up a contract. The lawyer will guide you along the way with what should be contained by the contract to help you retain the rights to your work, and other stipulations such as when you get those rights returned to you. You will be licensing your work to him, but you're not giving up the copyright. The contract might read out something like he has a right to use your work in his book as long as the book is within print. It really depends on what your lawyer advises you. Have your partner go partly on the attorney so that you both are covered. Tell the lawyer what you want and he'll draw up a contact to that effect. You're not giving your partner the actual copyright to your work, but you're leasing him the rights to use your work in his novel; those rights are different.
This is a serious query, and you're asking in the wrong place. You need legal direction, not advice from random people on Y!A.
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I recommend going to the library and asking a librarian if they can tell you more or less copyright law or direct you to a good book.
(Insert usual rant roughly how copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the expression of ideas.)
You keep hold of the copyright in whatever you create unless you explicitly give or supply it to someone else. Depending on the law where you live, this transfer may enjoy to be documented in writing.
What you're doing in this case is license your work to this guy. You might want to sort out whether the license is exclusive or non-exclusive (if it's exclusive, you can't license it to anyone else while the license is in effect, if it's non-exclusive, you can), how long it lasts, and whether he can use it in anything he creates, or just in that book.
EDIT: Emailing your work to yourself as proof of authorship is even more useless than snail-mailing it to yourself. Faking your own copy of an email that appears to have been sent earlier someone else's is trivial. Your email provider might have kept a copy that you couldn't alter... but are you prepared to gamble the outcome of a lawsuit on that possibility?
I'll describe you now that e-mailing your work to yourself does not protect you from anything. This is called Poor Man's copyright and is not recognized beneath the U.S. law (source: copyright.gov - FAQs). Your work is automatically copyrighted.
What I highly suggest you do is contact a copyright lawyer and enjoy him/her draw up a contract. The lawyer will guide you along the way with what should be contained by the contract to help you retain the rights to your work, and other stipulations such as when you get those rights returned to you. You will be licensing your work to him, but you're not giving up the copyright. The contract might read out something like he has a right to use your work in his book as long as the book is within print. It really depends on what your lawyer advises you. Have your partner go partly on the attorney so that you both are covered. Tell the lawyer what you want and he'll draw up a contact to that effect. You're not giving your partner the actual copyright to your work, but you're leasing him the rights to use your work in his novel; those rights are different.
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