Copyright in literary works?
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This is a topic you may get many different answers on.\nYou can copyright the work yourself, but it's generally unnecessary. As soon as you write it, it becomes your intellectual property, meaning you already have a copyright on it.\n\nLook in to the different copyright laws, and if you're not comfortable assuming it's already your property, then go ahead and have it registered.
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First step is to put 'All pages (or, "All writings") contained herein (the) copyright (symbol)  2006 (the year, of crs) by your name, on the title page (for a book manuscript)...\n\nwhen you put your name/signature on any creative work, they say you are protected. \nIf you are very serious, there is the U.S. Copyright Ofc, in Washington D.C. They don't come to the telephone in a hurry, and you do pay a fee...if you do it via snail mail (I haven't looked lately...likely you can find info and I bet even the application papers, online), you'll need to get a good book, as yu'l likely sit 'on hold' a time...then, you'll need a copy of your text, to send in with the fee and form papers.\nBe aware, that once the copyright expires (yu get to keep renewing it, every few years), then the copyright registered work comes under the 'public domain'...anyone can swipe, legally then. And, yes, they do want you to keep paying renewal fees, last I knew. \nThe old 'kitchen table copyright' is legally binding, in cases of dispute, as far as, again, I last heard: You put a copy of your completed work, into a sealed envelope, which you mail from yourself, to yourself (at the same address). You then file the sealed envelope with its contents away, 'in case'. The rules are different for writing lyrics, and for visuals, for artworks, than for text, when going thru the Wash. DC ofc.\nBest wishes, WRITER
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If the lyrics have a current copyright (which is likely for anything less than a hundred years old), and you don't have the permission of the copyright holder, you are in violation of copyright law.\n\nHere is a link to FAQ's from the US Copyright Office:
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Yes.\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
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There is some flexibility for titles of Literature as well as songs.  Unfortunately if an author sues and goes to court, there is a chance that the other author will have to change the title.  If it is a similar title from an ancient text, there isn't a claim for plagarism, because the original author is dead and can't claim infringement.
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As long as you make sure that nobody else than the people you would borrow the book get a copy of the scan it can be seen as fair use.\nDo not put it at any publicly accessible place - like a web server, a shared folder, etc.
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It is possibly and probably illegal, although it depends on what you're taking. Regardless of whether or not there's a copyright notice, the text of the website is copyright of the author of the text or owner of the site. There is a fair use exception to copyright; again, that gets into the amount and substantiality of what you're taking. Giving credit to the original author doesn't matter if you're infringing; it's still infringement.\n\nHere's a link about the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which explains more about some of the issues involved: \nhttp://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/dmca.htm
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It is not legal in the USA to do that.\nI am not sure about India but there is a very severe penalty if you do that unless you wrote the books yourself. You can go to jail for that here. It is called copyright violation.
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Copyrighting is easy; all you need to do is be able to prove that you created the material before a certain date.  Actually, whenever you create the material you automatically have the copyright, but if you ever needed to prove it you would need a dated copy.\n\nThis will work: send a copy of the manuscript to yourself in the mail.  Take the parcel down to the post office and have the clerk stamp the parcel all over with the date.  Then send it to yourself.  When it arrives, just hang on to it and don't open it.  If you ever need to establish that you hold the copyright, you'll have a copy inside a dated envelope!\n\nAs for publishing, I have no idea.
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From the copyright holder.  You need to contact the owner directly and ask for terms.
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If you do not want someone to use something you write keep it private.  If they are using something you've written and not attributing it to you, this is a violation of your copyright and I imagine you could send a takedown notice.  I really don't think you want to do that, however, that is the mechanism that websites use to control the misuse of their intellectual property.
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Even though your content is copyrighted when you create it, proving it is the challenge. Whoever proves they wrote it first wins.\n\nIt is very possible that it could be plagiarized by anyone who finds it. I suggest you find a way to copyright it so that once you find your poetry published, you can go after the author or publisher.\n\nThe best way is to go to copyright.gov and apply for a copyright for your content.\n\nA poor man's method of copy protecting your material is to snail mail a copy of your work to yourself leaving it sealed. The postmark date would identify the date of your work. But as this is a poor man's method, it is not fool proof and is dificult to prove in court.
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That would almost certainly fall within the fair use provisions of US copyright law. Generally speaking, when you are giving criticism of another work, you are allowed to excerpt it in part, so long as what you are doing is providing identification or supporting facts for your criticism.\n\nSince most people are going to recognize a movie by its cover art / promotional collateral, you're fine.\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov
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nothing\n\nexcept for the copyright
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Copyright is something that happens automatically and there is no necessary procedure to be gone through. For example, all the answers on this page are copyright of their respective authors. This page itself is copyrighted and you'll notice at the bottom it says "Copyright © 2006 Yahoo! Inc". Yahoo won't have registered this page because they know that simply creating this page gives them the copyright.\n\nIf a book is already published by the name of "good guide.." then you can't use the exact words. However you may modify the name. To find whether the book is copyrighted or not you may visit the following web-sites:\n\nCopyright in the US... http://www.copyright.gov/\nTrademarks in the US... http://www.uspto.gov/\nCopyright on Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright.....\nTrademarks on Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trademarks....\nGeneral Copyright Info... http://www.copyrightwitness.com/copyrigh...
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Various info.\n\nDoesn't look like copyright has expired yet, of course.
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If the quote is in the public domain, it is ok.\nIf it has been restricted, or copywritten, then you need permission.