In this episode, Matt & Lauren–who are definitely not lawyers–take on copyright law. We talk through what indie authors need to know about copyrighting their books in the US, why and how authors should register their work for copyright, and how fanfiction and generative AI may impact copyright in the future.

Again: we are not attorneys.

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💡 Copyright Resources

Creative Commons
Register Your Work → How to Copyright Literary Works
Bowker | Must-Know Copyright Basics & FAQs
CopyrightsNow
What Writers Should Know About Copyright
Write Publish Sell | What Every Author Needs To Know About Copyright, ISBN, PCN and LCCN
Library of Congress | Artificial Intelligence Report

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Sound Bites From This Episode

🎙️ [11:41] “At the very least, we're going to give you the information that you need to look further into because it's hard to know what you don't know.”

🎙️ [20:00] “Which is also–does not mean that you've now copyrighted your work per se. Again, legally, technically, it is copyrighted because you created it, but you should still take the extra steps we're about to get into.”

🎙️ [46:16] “Endorsed by Lauren, who is not an attorney, by the way. But an elder emo. So she does carry some weigh

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