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Oct
08

What Does Copyright Protect?

Posted by: Diane | Comments (2)

Got a great question from Chris Marlow about copyright. (Important notes: You can only copyright your particular expression of your ideas, not the ideas themselves. You can’t copyright titles, oddly enough, but you can possibly trademark them.)

Chris mentioned that her students add “all rights reserved” to their copyright notices. Is that necessary,  or redundant?

Well, both.

Any time you create a work, it is Read More→

There’s a new article on my Publishing Coach Weekly site about Web 2.0 for authors.

If you’re not sure what Web 2.0 even is, and why it’s the best thing that’s happened to authors since the printing press, and why it’s THE reason I say, “This is the best time to be an author” …

read the article!

(I would post it here but … honestly, I like my XSite Pro site, where I post my PCW articles, better. Much easier to work with, search engine optimize, and all the works. If you want to create sites easily, check out the Xsite Pro web design software.)

Okay, enough digression. Read the article, okay? And if it sparks questions–I have a link right there to ask away!

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