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Self-Publisher’s Quick Guide to Copyright: A Report

May 7, 2010 6 comments
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Back when I started this blog I really didn’t know what information would prove to be most useful to today’s self-publishers, or what would be the most popular. A couple of months in, once I had paused long enough to figure out Google’s Analytics program and dig into the numbers a bit, I was pretty [...]

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Top 10 Myths, Lies and Misinformation about Copyright

February 10, 2010 12 comments

I used to run into this kind of call a lot, years ago when I had my own little publishing company. An author would be on the phone talking about his book and why I should publish it. “And you don’t have to worry about the copyright either,” he’d say with confidence. “I mailed myself [...]

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What Every Writer Ought to Know about Fair Use and Copyright

February 8, 2010 98 comments

I’ve been researching what the best practices are these days for copyright, and I’ll be writing about them in articles soon. But one area of copyright is really difficult to understand for most publishers, and for bloggers too for that matter. And that is: What constitutes “fair use”? To answer this question I’m very fortunate [...]

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6 Copyright Page Disclaimers to Copy and Paste, and Giving Credit

January 16, 2010 9 comments

Last time I gave examples of long and short copyright pages that you can use in your book. Today I have two types of information you might want to add to your copyright page: disclaimers and credits. Let’s look at disclaimers first. Examples of Disclaimers The copyright page is the place publisher put disclaimers. Here’s [...]

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Copyright Page Samples You Can Copy and Paste Into Your Book

January 15, 2010 24 comments

One of the most common questions I get from new self-publishers is, “What do I put on the copyright page?” For some reason, the copyright page has the power to intimidate some people, with its small print and legalistic language, not to mention all those mysterious numbers. But it doesn’t have to be that way. [...]

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