Concord Literary Festival: Understanding Your Legal Rights

When looking for books or websites, content creators must think broadly in searching to mine all content of interest. Keywords and subjects include:

How to Publish Your Books (process books)
Copyright Law - Creating and Using Other People's Content
Publishing Law
Literary Law
Publishing Contracts
Negotiating a Contract
How to Get [or be your own] a Literary Agent
Self-Publishing
Print on Demand Publishing
Vanity Presses
e-Book Publishing

Here are a sampling of potentially helpful websites. UNH Law teaches information literacy that includes learning skills to choose sources. Hopefully this list filters out the junk sites on these topics.

The Copyright Office offers introductory answers to frequently asked questions about copyright, registration, and services of the Office.
http://www.copyright.gov/faq.html
Copyright Registry
http://copyrightregistery-gov-form.com/
The FindLaw "Copyright" section provides information and resources on getting copyright protection for your own work, licensing copyrights, using someone else's copyrighted material, and much more. Here you will also find links to forms and resources from the U.S. Copyright Office.
http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/copyright/
Copyright for Computer Authors
http://law.unh.edu/thomasfield/ipbasics/copyright-for-computer-authors.php
Copyright in Written Work
http://law.unh.edu/thomasfield/ipbasics/copyright-in-written-work.php
Copyright on the Internet
http://law.unh.edu/thomasfield/ipbasics/copyright-on-the-internet.php
Stanford Copyright Ownership and Transfers FAQ
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter13/13-a.html
The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Fair Use in a Nutshell: A Practical Guide to Fair Use
http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/fairuse.html
Basic Copyright Concepts For Writers
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/cew2.htm
Copyright and Authors
http://www.ams.org/ewing/Documents/CopyrightandAuthors-70.pdf
Tools to help you manage your intellectual property
http://www.clickandcopyright.com/other-products.aspx
LegalZoom Copyrighting Your Work
http://bit.ly/cIrmL6
The Society of Authors has a number of Quick Guides and Occasional Papers that answer common queries.
http://www.societyofauthors.org/guides-and-articles
Copyright Clearance Center helps authors, creators, individual copyright holders and their representatives license the use of their copyrighted material and gain a deeper knowledge of the business of writing.
http://www.copyright.com/viewPage.do?pageCode=a1-n
Protecting Your Web Site
http://www.wiscocomputing.com/articles/protect_web_sites.htm
Improving Your Book Contract : Negotiation Tips for Nine Typical Clauses
http://www.authorsguild.org/services/legal_services/books.html
The "Nuts and Bolts" of NEGOTIATING YOUR BOOK CONTRACT
www.mbbp.com/resources/iptech/pdfs/writers_rights.pdf
The Ten Key Negotiating Points In An Author-Publisher Agreement
http://www.ivanhoffman.com/points.html
Negotiating Your Book Contract: 20 "Must" Topics to Talk About
http://absolutewrite.com/novels/negotiating_book_contract.htm
What Not To Miss When Drafting & Negotiating Your Book Publishing Contract
http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/final.three.html
Directory of Writers Associations
http://www.ebookcrossroads.com/writers-associations.html
Writers' Groups Listed By State
http://www.squidoo.com/localwritersassociationsbystate
Here is a list of various writer's associations and groups for freelance writers, poets, book authors, and editors.
http://www.bookmarket.com/writers.htm
Professional Associations for Writers
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2583.asp
National Writers Association : A community of writers and friends
http://www.nationalwriters.com/page/page/1963103.htm
International Webmasters Association (IWA)
http://www.iwanet.org/

Copyright & Fair Use - Center for Social Media
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use
Social Media Copyright Quiz
http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2009/10/social-media-copyright-quiz.html
Copyright – Social Media SAVES your IP from plagiarists
http://laurelpapworth.com/copyright-social-media-saves-your-ip-from-plagiarists/