On Wednesday 02 August 2006 18:38, James Greenidge wrote:
>
> >>> I'm jumping in late, but obviously neither of you has had anything
> >>> actually stolen from you. I have.
> >>>
> >> I have never heard of a case of theft from *manuscript*. Of course
> >> my published work has been infringed. The subject here, however,
is
> >> a *manuscript* template. The manuscript is not the final form of
the
> >> work (one hopes).
> >>
> >> There is and has been an inherent copyright in your work as soon
> >> as it is expressed in tangible form. But in order to collect
> >> statutory as well as actual damages the work should be
> >> registered.
> >>
> >> It should be made clear that you are offering first serial rights
> >> to the publisher.
> >>
> >>
> Writers Digest and the WGA and screenwriter sites constantly warn
about
> "publishing" works on-line if your intent's to get it "legitimately"
> published by a publishing house or film producer later. Post your
works
> on-line if you're into vanity publishing. Don't if you're into bucks.
> Really simple as that.
No it's not. A notable exception is academic works, which sometimes are
expanded into commercial publications. You are crazy if you are not
the publisher of record of musical compositions. You can easily halve
your income that way. daveA
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