Writers Paradise

  Here's my article which was published this month in InSinC , the quarterly newsletter of "Sisters In Crime". I hope that you enjoy it and learn something along the way.                                                       Copyright 101: Catching the Bug What the heck is © and what does it mean? We see the symbol everywhere, on paintings, photographs, movie credit trailers, magazines, CDs, and even on the Rights pages of books. Well, that little copyright bug represents a powerful tool in the writer’s arsenal. This symbol protects you, you heirs and your work from theft and infringement, and signifies that you are the exclusive owner and author of the work. Thanks to visionaries like Mark Twain and James Fennimore Cooper, in 1909, the United States enacted the first Copyright Statute, which recognized the necessity that artist’s works be protected as their stock in trade. As the technological advances in the publishing, advertising, music and enter