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Can people still use content from my book without permission when I file for copyrights?

23 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Julie Broad explains that copyright registration protects your book from unauthorized use, but fair use allows others to quote you for criticism, teaching, research, parody, or news reporting. You can pursue legal action for infringement except where fair use applies.

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If I register for copyright protection, can people still use my book without permission? Copyright protection does mean others cannot plagiarize or use your words or the material in your book without permission, and if they do, you have the ability to seek remedies and damages except in the case of fair use. Fair use is the idea in US Copyright law that excerpts from copyrighted material are okay to be used word for word without permission from from the copyright holder. This is for the purposes of critique, teaching, research, parody, or satire, or reporting news, so you can't entirely protect your work from being used by others. But hey, if someone's quoting you in your work, isn't that a good thing?