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Have you published non-fiction in the past 10-15 years?
Check out this class action lawsuit:
http://www.copyrightclassaction.com/
It is a very expensive lesson in non-fiction publishing for me. I just discovered that Writer's Digest never registered my copyrights to the articles I wrote for them. The settlement would be worth around $1500 per violation if they had. Since they didn't, if I understand the FAQ correctly, it's $60 per violation. Now--if they registered the magazine as an entire entity, as many magazines do, perhaps that will still count. Don't know yet.
I would use money right now. From now on, I register my own copyrights. In fact, I'm seriously thinking about registering the last unregistered short stories, for an anthology series.
http://www.copyrightclassaction.com/
It is a very expensive lesson in non-fiction publishing for me. I just discovered that Writer's Digest never registered my copyrights to the articles I wrote for them. The settlement would be worth around $1500 per violation if they had. Since they didn't, if I understand the FAQ correctly, it's $60 per violation. Now--if they registered the magazine as an entire entity, as many magazines do, perhaps that will still count. Don't know yet.
I would use money right now. From now on, I register my own copyrights. In fact, I'm seriously thinking about registering the last unregistered short stories, for an anthology series.
Magazines
This only seems to apply to magazine articles... and dude! Do you think they list enough magazines?
I'm all FOR publishing material electronically, but this has to be done correctly. No trampling on author's rights, guys. We make your content...
Re: Magazines