Copyright may seem like a mystery, but it is actually quite easy to understandas Lee Wilson demonstrates in The Copyright Guide, Fourth Edition. This resource explains everything you need to know to make copyright work for you, including how to license your copyrights, how to acquire the right to use the works of others, what copyright infringement is, how to protect your works from infringement, and how to avoid infringing on the works of others.

Includes index. Previous edition subtitle was A friendly handbook to protecting and profiting from copyrights.

Copyright protection -- Copyright ownership -- Copyright duration -- Determining copyright status -- Copyright registration -- Copyright infringement -- Other people's copyrights -- Requesting permissions -- Managing permissions -- If you want to sue -- Licensing and selling copyrights -- Protecting your ideas -- Recapture of copyrights -- Copyright and the internet.