RE: What's the definition of a published author

[Michael McCallister <Michae -dot- McCallister -at- msbinfo -dot- com>]

A quick look at the Copyright Basics page at the US Copyright Office brings
this definition of "Publication":

 (http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#pub)

"Publication" is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the
public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or
lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of
persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public
display constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work
does not of itself constitute publication.

I am not seeing anything here about distributing unpublished/punished works,
aside from the submission of a "collection" with a single title that you
don't have to deposit with the Library of Congress.

Copyright.gov is the place to go for most copyright-related questions.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Downing, David [mailto:DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:44 PM
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Subject: RE: What's the definition of a published author



I was thinking of what I remember -- albeit a little shakily -- reading on
the copyright registration Form TX that I got from the Library of Congress.
You had to submit copies of the work and the required number of copies was
different for published and unpublished works.  I also seem to remember that
if you copyrighted your work as an unpunished work, you had to be careful
about making and distributing copies, because if you distributed more than X
number of copies, your work would legally be published and would cease to be
protected under the copyright you has registered.

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