A Beginners Guide to Writing Poetry ©

Understanding Copyright

Any original work that you write deserves to be protected from being copied by anyone without permission.  In essence, you own the copyright to all that you write under your own or your pen name.  If you are being employed to write that work will however almost always remain the copyright of the company or individual that commisioned the work.

The links in this article will take you to authoritative sources of information that any author should have access to - you may not need to know everything shown within those sites, but will have those you do wish to find available when a question arises.

Legal Information:-

Copyright Law - The laws pertaining to copyright are fairly similar in most countries, but the links below will take you to official sites for individual countries. In general anything that you write in your own time (ie, not as a part of your employment) remains yours under copyright regulations.