Hi all,
Regarding publishing issues for the forthcoming book: I think that the best
way to protect your work is still the old-fashioned way: Copyright it! It
covers all bases and gives you rights for a long time to come. That way also,
if you have to ever defend your rights, the fact that you've registered it
allows you more options as opposed to the automatic copyright you have just in
the fact of publishing it and indicating that it's copyrighted material.
I think that unauthorized copying is always an issue, almost always has been.
A certain percentage of people will copy works and give them to their friends,
etc. But this is so minimal as not to be an issue really. Additionally, for a
"niche" book like this one, any plagiarism is going to be glaringly and
immediately obvious. In other words, if someone tries to rip off a work of
this nature and offer it for sale, only a cursory inspection will reveal that
it's your work, pilfered! After all, who else out there is undertaking this
kind of project?
Two more things: 1) There is a way to create a PDF that cannot be printed. But
of course, this doesn't protect from copying and distributing. Perhaps a PDF
marketed under a shareware concept? 2) Or, just bite the bullet and distribute
on paper only. You could "watermark" your drawings in Photoshop or some other
program that'll do that just to be on the safe side.
I'm sure there are other ways to protect your work. But again, in short, the
risk of copying just comes with the territory. Protect yourself as best you
can, grin and bear it, and keep your ear to the ground for other work that
appears on the scene that might be ripping you off.
Copying protected works, especially of limited marketability, is probably
just too much trouble for most criminally inclined people anyway. They'd
rather pirate software or music CDs; there's more money in it.
Hope this helps,
� Michael
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