#311 – Looking at Legal Issues as an Indie Author with Maria Riegger
Kobo Writing Life Podcast
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How to Avoid Copyright Infringement
In the United States, what you create or written a work, you have to copyright of that work because you've created it. You don't have to do anything. You're the copyright holder. If somebody is a infringer, you're copyright and you sue, what you could possibly get would be monetary damages and lost income from the book. But I always recommend to authors, especially newer authors, when you have your finished work,. It's got to be a finished work to be able to register it with the Copyright Office. There is a fee per work, but the potential benefit is great because that if you have to sue for infringement later, the damages you could get them way higher
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