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Coffee and Wordcount
A recent Newsfeed game in which we were egged on to replace a word in a movie title with the word coffee yielded a long list of very fun replies. Some gems included:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Coffee
Coffee in Seattle
There Will Be Coffee
No Coffee for Old Men
The Sound of Coffee
and the list goes on. See all of the fun replies here "Note: [Embed xUPGcv3xJ38gnMtDK8]
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The real question here is: Is caffeinated writing good or bad?
The answer lies within yourself as you ask yourself some follow up questions on the coffee topic. What gets you to write a lot? What gets you to write well? Do you like feeling jittery? What about the crash? Is more coffee better for you or will just one cup in the morning power you for a day? Can a fresh apple replace a cup of coffee? How about a brisk walk around the block? How about a brisk walk to your local coffee purveyor and a little chat to refresh your creativity?
All that writing and nothing said. I think I fall under the category of coffee is good for my word count, but terrible for my content quality. What do you think?
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I received the following replies to my last For Authors Newsletter "Copyright" :
Santeven Quokklaus  wrote: It is interesting to note how copyright changes from country to country. In Australia, you are automatically assumed to have copyright the moment you put anything down on paper/recording device/computer/etc. It is an automatic and a given. I was told by one of my US editors that in the USA you have to state you own the copyright. Is this true?
Also, I have found a number of articles in Writing.com that have been plagiarised from external sources. When I posted on the message board about this, I was told the copyright holder had to complain. This makes WDC seem complicit in these breaches of copyright. Just an observation...
As I mentioned in my newsletter, I have zero legal training and I am not able to answer any questions. If a US editor told you that you have to state that you own the copyright, then you should go with their advice since they seem to be sure of it. But I am not going to tell you if that's correct according to my knowledge, as I don't have that type of knowledge.
Writing.Com is not complicit in breaches of copyright according to the law. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act exempts internet platforms from liability for copyright infringement occurring on their sites provided the platforms respond to “takedown notices” when told that a particular book on a particular webpage is stolen. In other words, the law places the burden on the author or publisher to police the web. I found the part in Italics in the Los Angeles Times on July 26, 2019. It was written by Douglas Preston, the President of the Writer's Guild.
ForeverDreamer wrote: Thanks for this information about copyrights. Also, I wanted to say that I am grateful for the information about ISBN numbers. I have a few short stories on Amazon. That wasn't a problem. I plan to publish a collection of my stories eventually. I would probably have had Kindle assign a number if I hadn't read your newsletter. That would be terrible. They should make that clear. It seems a bit dishonest to me. Thanks again!
I'm glad my articles were useful to you. I don't know if Amazon is more or less dishonest than any other publishing company. At least they are creating an easy one-click solution to those who only want to have a book for their friends and families to download. My guess is that they chose not to go into the legal nit-grit in that part of the content creation process because then they would have lengthy disclaimers and sub-pages for nearly any step. They can say it's up to each author to do their due diligence to educate themselves about what it is they are doing -from ISBN numbers to tax paying for the sale of their books.
hbk16 wrote: Any writing piece should be original authentic and exclusive . Indeed writing art requires from us as authors creation. Such latter means new ideas and a new concept of writing. Many ancient writing pieces remain alive nowadays because of their distinction.
Yes. You are correct that writing should be authentic.
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  wrote: Makes one wonder about fan-fiction a little, as I've written more than a few of those, and read more than a few.
I found this on Wikipedia: "Fanfiction is not infringing if it constitutes fair use of the underlying copyrighted work. [...] Works of fanfiction are more likely to constitute fair use if they are "transformative" with respect to the original work, if they are non-commercial, if they appropriate relatively little of the original work, and/or if they do not tend to detract from the potential market for or value of the original work."
jonblair wrote: Is the WDC copyright sufficient to forgo a REGISTERED copyright through the US Copyright Office if the WDC author decides to publish?
I don't have an answer for you for this. I hope one of the linked articles in my newsletter can help you out with that.
Mastiff wrote: I do know this, and am thankful for it. Anything put our by a state or local government, like statues and code, are public domain. It's helped me much!
It looks like your use of a character from another work of fiction within your own story would fall under "fair use" since you appropriated little of the original work and you didn't diminish the value of the original work.
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