Re: Out of Print

Shirley Bentley <sbentley[_at_]wsdeaf.wednet.edu> wrote:
>
> Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, but I have
> another. When you summit a "work" for copyright, is it researched to
> see if you have taken it from someone else?
>
> I know my questions must seem dumb to you but this is all new to me,
> and I have written a book, and did not have a clue when I started
> what all was involved, and I am not much past that now, just not a
> clue where to go from here.

Well, you should know whether you took it from someone else, or if it was an original creation (or somewhere in between). Copyright only protects works of original authorship, so if you didn't take it from someone else, you probably didn't infringe anyone else's copyright. Remember, in copyright infringement, bona fide independent creation is a good defense.

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