title: Every Writer's Guide to Copyright and Publishing Law, Second Edition
author:  Ellen M. Kozak 
description: It would be wrong for a writer to assume that the mere hiring of an agent or a lawyer absolves him or her of all responsibility to understand copyright and other publishing laws. For one thing, most lawyers are not schooled in the intricacies of these laws; for another, a writer could save a bundle of money by preparing well before going to a lawyer. But most importantly, it behooves a writer to have a working understanding of the laws that govern his or her work, because some of them are complicated, and pleading ignorance isn't usually a strong defense. Ellen M. Kozak provides a trim primer on such legal issues as the ever-evolving U.S. copyright laws (including the burgeoning field of electronic copyright), contracts, libel, fair use, work for hire, collaboration agreements, and dealing with copyright infringement. This is a modest, straightforward guide that explains the many complex laws behind the deceptively simple copyright dictum that "all works of sufficient length," according to Kozak, "... are covered by federal law once they have been fixed in a medium of expression from which they can be read back." <i>--Jane Steinberg</i>
zlib_text: OTHER TITLES BY DIANE JANES
  
    
  
  FICTION
  
   _The Pull of the Moon_
  
   _Why Don’t You Come for Me?_
  
   _Swimming in the Shadows_
  
   _Stick or Twist_
  
   _The Magic Chair Murder_
  
   _The Poisoned Chalice Murder_
  
    
  
  NON-FICTION
  
   _Edwardian Murder:_
  
   _Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery_
  
   _Poisonous Lies: The Croydon Arsenic Mystery_
  
   _The Case of the Poisoned Partridge_
  
   _Death at Wolf’s Nick: The Killing of Evelyn Foster_
  
  Copyright © 2019 Diane Janes
  
    
  
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