Hi all,
Hope someone can help a newbie out with regards to copyright. Do any of you register copyright for your stories on completion and prior to sending them for submission?
I have read a couple of places that it is considered pretentious to put a copyright symbol on your work when submitting it places (something to which I happen to agree), and this isn't really my major concern as I know that editors and such would rather just pay to publish a decent story than go to any lengths to steal or pass ideas on.
Apart from concerns about sending to dodgy/ phoney competitions and/or publishers, my question arose after I lost a back up disk with a number of stories on it - albeit with password protection on it. In a panic I immediately searched the web and utilised a company called WWOCR and paid for credits to register copyright of my stories.
I know that copyright is granted the moment you put down your ideas on any kind of media, so it's just a case of wondering if anyone else goes to any length to secure copyright on their work or whether it's nothing I should worry too much about.
Apologies if this subject has been covered elsewhere.
Hope someone can help a newbie out with regards to copyright. Do any of you register copyright for your stories on completion and prior to sending them for submission?
I have read a couple of places that it is considered pretentious to put a copyright symbol on your work when submitting it places (something to which I happen to agree), and this isn't really my major concern as I know that editors and such would rather just pay to publish a decent story than go to any lengths to steal or pass ideas on.
Apart from concerns about sending to dodgy/ phoney competitions and/or publishers, my question arose after I lost a back up disk with a number of stories on it - albeit with password protection on it. In a panic I immediately searched the web and utilised a company called WWOCR and paid for credits to register copyright of my stories.
I know that copyright is granted the moment you put down your ideas on any kind of media, so it's just a case of wondering if anyone else goes to any length to secure copyright on their work or whether it's nothing I should worry too much about.
Apologies if this subject has been covered elsewhere.