6. Why Do You Need To Copyright Your Book?

Welcome to the sixth post in a series of articles on writing, publishing and marketing your next book.

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A copyright is a law that grants you as an author full ownership over what you create, giving you the exclusive right to do with it as you please. You can decide whether or not you want it reproduced, distributed, or whatever at all. Copyright is like a legal certificate of ownership over your creation.

Although, using the U.S copyright law, your self-published work is protected as soon as you write your work down. Copyright itself is based on your creative work and is not dependent on any formal agreement with a book publisher or self-publishing company.

Registration with a Copyright Office is beneficial, as it gives you a higher level of security and even though the copyright protects you as you start to write, you’ll have to register your work with the Copyright Office to be officially recognized as the copyright holder in a court of law.

The main point to placing a copyright on your book is to protect it. There are such people as book thieves, and without copyright law, there is nothing stopping them from taking your manuscript, slapping a cover on it, and pushing it to the public. You can defend it legally with a copyright protection in your name. To start the copyright process you can go to copyright.gov or you can use the Composio platform, either option works great.

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