{"id":3032,"date":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:22","slug":"and-more-ways-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"\u2122, \u00a9 and More Ways to Protect Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all kinds of, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/legal\/postmark.asp\">urban<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/music\/songs\/birthday.asp\">legends<\/a> about copyright law. I know I&#8217;ve heard more than once that you can mail yourself a letter &#8212; unopened &#8212; with a copy of your work in it, and voila, you&#8217;re protected. Unfortunately, that, and a bunch of other copyright promises that I&#8217;ve run across on the Web, aren&#8217;t true. There IS such a thing as implied copyright under the &#8220;medium of protection&#8221; law, but people who use cyberspace as an arena for their workshopping and critiquing open themselves up to court fees and headaches since one has to file for infringement rights within three months of the first time something is copied and stolen. It&#8217;s also very difficult to prove that elusive &#8220;significant harm&#8221; thing, so it&#8217;s not as expensive as you might think to have your work of art copyrighted. It sure beats paying lawyers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How safe are you from copyright issues? Are your readers people you know and trust? Is your Wireless network encrypted and do you have firewalls in place on your computer system?  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpaphoto.org\/FOCUS\/April_06\/Copyright_Rules.htm\">more about copyrighting<\/a> from a Bay Area legal expert, and be careful &#8211; writers tend to borrow storylines without meaning to. Protect yourself from intentional threat and only work with people you know you can trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all kinds of, well, urban legends about copyright law. I know I&#8217;ve heard more than once that you can mail yourself a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}