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Fair Use, The Rights of Personality, and Unintended Consequences

by Joel Friedlander on May 20, 2010 23 Comments

When dealing with a rights license, be careful you don’t give away more than you bargained for. And treat other people’s rights with equal zeal. We’re in this together. Two cases of rights issues show that rights can’t be taken lightly, or given easily.

Filed Under: Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing Tagged With: book publishing, copyright, fair use, intellectual property, rights, rights license, rights of personality

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

by Joel Friedlander on May 7, 2010 7 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Legal Issues, Reports, Self-Publishing Tagged With: copyright, copyright myths, how to copyright, indie publishing, self publishers, self publishing, TheBookDesigner newsletter

Top 10 Myths, Lies and Misinformation about Copyright

by Joel Friedlander on February 10, 2010 14 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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: copyright, fair use

What Every Writer Ought to Know about Fair Use and Copyright

by Joel Friedlander on February 8, 2010 588 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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: copyright, David L. Amkraut, fair use, self publishing

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

by Joel Friedlander on January 16, 2010 140 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 publishers put disclaimers. Here’s […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Legal Issues Tagged With: copyright, copyright page, publishing book

Copyright Page Samples You Can Copy and Paste Into Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on January 15, 2010 252 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. […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Tagged With: CIP, copyright

Copyright Page Requirements for Books Printed Overseas

by Joel Friedlander on November 12, 2009 14 Comments

By Joanne Bolton TheBookDesigner.com welcomes our first guest author, Joanne Bolton. She brings to this subject many years of expertise in printing books overseas for American publishers. There are many things required on the copyright page of a book, and these are well documented, but what some self publishers don’t know is that they are […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bolton Printing, copyright, customs, Joanne Bolton

Self-Publishing Basics: The Copyright Page

by Joel Friedlander on October 28, 2009 311 Comments

In an earlier post on how to make a book, I explained the role of the copyright page: Copyright page—Usually the verso of the title page, this page carries the copyright notice, edition information, publication information, printing history, cataloging data, legal notices, and the books ISBN or identification number. In addition, rows of numbers are […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Interior Design, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Cataloging in Publication Data, copyright, copyright page, Library of Congress, quick & easy guides, self publishing

Self-Publishing Basics: A 5-Minute Guide to Copyright

by Joel Friedlander on October 8, 2009 45 Comments

Well, we’re all busy and who has time to research copyright? This is the province of lawyers, big publishers with legal departments, and plagiarism trackers, isn’t it? No, every self-publisher needs to have a bit of information on copyright and the way the law works in the United States. Okay, I promised this would take […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Legal Issues, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: copyright, intellectual property, self publishing

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