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Becoming A Published Writer Copyright and contracts Copyright affects many areas of our lives. Recording programmes off air, playing records in public, and photocopying printed materials are all infringements of copyright. Copyright gives you control over the use of your work, in terms of duplication, performance, broadcasting and online use. It comes into immediate effect as soon as you create something and is enforced by 'The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988'. The Act maintains your right to be identified as the creator of your work and to object to modification or distortion of it. For instance, if you wrote a poem and someone changed one of the verses they would be infringing your copyright. You can warn others that your work is copyrighted, by marking your work with a copyright symbol © and naming and dating it. Another way of establishing the existence of your work is to post a copy to yourself in a sealed envelope that remains unopened or deposit a copy with a bank or solicitor in exchange for a dated receipt. When you sign a contract with a publisher you are assigning or licensing your copyright to them. To assign means to sell all your rights to the publisher, while licensing means that you are allowing the publisher to publish your work once, in one territory and medium. Most publishers will try and obtain all rights to your work in all territories and all media. The reason for this is that the growth of new technology means publishers want to publish on the Internet, on CD-ROMs and on database archives without incurring further copyright costs.
Approximate Word count = 1043
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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