Do your research before you publish online, you never know what can happen.Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.
HOW TO COPYRIGHT YOUR WORK YOURSELF FOR FREE
Make your profit from the work before you let it out there for free unless you have a lot to gain by giving it away. It is better of course to shop it to publishers or at least publish it yourself through a self-publisher.
HOW TO COPYRIGHT YOUR WORK YOURSELF SERIAL
There is always risk when you are looking to gain something, so if you publish your novel online as a serial most-likely it will be fine. Keep in mind that many countries do not have the same copyright laws as the US, and if the people live in those countries you may see someone else making a profit off your work.
Excepts are fine, but if you publish an entire novel online that took you months to write, someone can steal it, and there is very little that can be done about it. With novels or works that are longer and require a lot of labor I would suggest that you not publish them online until they have earned you the money you were hoping to earn. You weren’t going to make a lot off the work anyway, in most cases. If you publish a poem or a story, that usually fine. The best advice here is don’t publish anything online that you feel can be stole and you are going to make money from. Right now there simply isn’t a really good way to have work removed from the web that has been stolen if that person owns the site and wants to publish it. Google has some avenues you can use to have personal information taken down, but copyrighted information is a different story. If the person who stole your work owns the site already you might have issues getting the work taken down. Most of the time you can contact the website and let webmaster know that it is plagiarized, and it will be taken down. Usually this will consist someone republishing a story or a poem in their name. If you publish your work on the web there is a very real chance that someone might decide to take your work. It is rare for a manuscript to be stolen by a publisher, but it is not rare for people to steal your work online. It is not as ironclad of course as having your work documented through US Copyright Office, but it might give you piece of mind. DON’T OPEN IT when it is delivered back to you and you’ll have government documented proof that you wrote the manuscript. Your second option, which many writers have done for a long time, is to send yourself a copy of your manuscript in the mail. If you want proof of you being the author of your manuscript, you can of course have it copyrighted through the copyright office. US Law says that anything you write on paper is immediately copyrighted, so the right is always and already in place, it is the proof you are looking for. This process is a little lengthy and it costs $30-$40 depending on what you are having copyrighted. First you could have it copyrighted through the United States Copyright Office. If you are still worried about this, there are 2 ways you can protect your manuscript. This means most of the time you don’t have to worry about a book publisher taking your book and publishing it without your permissions. Generally publishers make money from not only the books that they sell written by authors, but they make money from the relationships they build with those authors. This idea, generally, is not how work is plagiarized, and most of the time writers do not need to protect their work from publishers, and they certainly do not need to protect their work from legitimate publishers. This isn’t a big problems in the publishing world, to be honest. They are very concerned that a publisher is going to steal the manuscript, publish it, and leave the author out of the loop of making money from the work. People email me and say, “Hey if I send my manuscript to a publisher will they steal my work?” The author of the email is somewhat frantic usually. Ok, so I get this question all the time, and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never written an article about it.
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