where to go in Australia to copyright my poetry?
By Yahoo User • Category: Copyrights in AustraliaIve contacted a small publishing centre in my home state here is Australia, he wants a few samples of my work.Someone told me not to send anything until its copyrighted…However, I do have it all on sumidesigns.blogspot.com is that good enough? It has the dates each peice was added…I know I shoudlt trust too easily, and therefore I wont send anything until Im certain it will be ok… (though I dont think he will steal it ) I want to be sure..So how would I get my stuff copyrighted… Its already online at my blogspot, but what else do I need to do?
I don’t know about Australia, but I can tell you a bit about America. Your work is copyrighted the minute you write it, so it’s not necessary to indicate this on anything you submit. In fact, most publishers will be insulted if you do so. You’re basically saying that you don’t trust them not to steal your work, and you’re letting them know you’re an amateur. A reputable publisher would never risk a law suit by stealing your work. They know you could very easily mail a copy of your writing to yourself to establish when you wrote it. If you’re really worried, do that.—According to this web site http://www.copyright.com.au/ownership.htm copyright in Australia works the same as in the US. It’s automatic and doesn’t require any registration.
Ronnie that’s way too much work… just use Wikipedia, it’s a lot easier that way:——————-The Berne ConventionThe 1886 Berne Convention first established recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations, rather than merely bilaterally. Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not “register” or “apply for” a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention. As soon as a work is “fixed”, that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires. The Berne Convention also resulted in foreign authors being treated equivalently to domestic authors, in any country signed onto the Convention.The UK signed the Berne Convention in 1887 but did not implement large parts of it until 100 years later with the passage of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. The USA did not sign the Berne Convention until 1989.The regulations of the Berne Convention are incorporated into the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS agreement, thus making the Berne Convention practically world-wide.