I need help from someone who knows about copy rights on a poem I wrote?

Question

I wrote a peom, I entered it with the INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POETRY, do they own the copy right on the poem? The reason i'm asking is I have a close possibility to send a manuscript of the poem with a short story to go with it. to an other mag. that might publish it. can I do so, after I already entered the contest with International Library of poetry? I need some answer here please. thanks for any advice I receive.

Tis is my first poem and I don't know anything about how this all works. Or do I own the copy right? HELP

i thank you for the info. this poem was entered in an amuter free contest, all i remember is they asked if i had the original written poem? I figured yes I had the hand written copy only.I dont have a copy right. I asumed since i wrote it was mine to enter this contest.I so confussed at this point. Did I do some thing illegal? Iwas just so proud of it so i entered and submitted it,

if someone would email me on my profile, i can send them a copy of what on the web site poetry .com I have a copy of the poem i print from the web site. at the bottum of my copy it says copyright@2006
with my name next to it.

Answer 1

No, they do not own it. Unless of course you signed a contract on a piece of paper saying you do. To copyright works such as this you must go through the U.S. Library of Congress. There is an application on the website you must fil out and sign and notarize it. You pay there processing fee and you now own it!
Complete directions on what you need to do is in the link provided.

Answer 2

You did not give them the copyright. The work is yours. Have it copy written right away. If in doubt as I don't know where you live search the net about it. Was it a contest you entered, did it say that the poem would become the property of International Library of Poetry.Always check these things out before doing anything.

Answer 3

there is some excellent advice on copyright issues (among other things) at the link i append. anyone seriously interested in publishing their work (including doing it themselves) should probably read peter's book.

normally your copyright of anything you write will stay with you forever. it is quite difficult to lose the copyright of a poem (and probably impossible to do so accidentally). the international library of poetry may have 'publication rights' on your poem (they may be entitled to republish it - but even then only if they tell you first) but this is unlikely to make a difference in most cases.

some places that use poetry insist that their use is the first publication. if you are dealing with such a place it may be best to ask them if it matter that the international library of poetry used your poem first. sometimes it will, sometimes it won't.

for the most part though copyright issues are rarely a problem with poetry except in poetry competitions (and not always even then), and the copyright of your poems will stay with you and you alone until your death (in fact until 70 years after this) unless you do something very strange.

Answer 4

i do agree that you must get your work copyrightten [sp] straight away.

mail yourself a copy of the poem/short story but dont open it. Leave it somewhere safe. It'll be postmarked with the date so no one can say that you didnt write the poem before then.

Answer 5

Oh, that's thoroughly plagiarized. No ifs, ands, or buts. as quickly as you quoted the unique version revealed via technique of Edgar Blythe in 2002, you left off the 1st stanza, it quite is likewise very almost comparable to your chum's. In college, we've distinctive computers wherein pupils enter their writing and the laptop searches the massive database of most of the internet for comparable paintings. in case you stumbled in this so rather, that's for specific a cakewalk. the laptop gadget at my college could fee this as ninety 8% or ninety 9% unoriginal. He heavily isn't waiting to even declare to himself he wrote this poem. he's conscious of he did no longer. Even his few ameliorations are no progression. He could never dare to teach it in in college or placed up it to any e-e book. The question is, what's he going to do with it? If he's claiming to you that he wrote it, he may well be tempted to tell his female chum he wrote it -- and how stupid does he think of of his female chum is? Does he think of of SHE won't examine the internet? a guy does no longer could prefer to place in writing a poem himself to impression a woman. He could prefer to grant her a replica of the unique with the author's call and date on it, and tell her on a similar time as he learn it, all he could prefer to think of of of replace into her. He could prefer to place in writing unique music to bypass with the poem if he desires, yet he however has to credit Blythe with the lyrics. she would be in a position to however like it. If he claims to have written it himself and he or she properly-knownshows out in any distinctive case, he will look like a fool and a liar and the poem will consistently be a reminder to her of his betrayal. He shouldn't possibility it. via technique of techniques, you in all probability referred to that Blythe strongly borrowed from Robert Frost's poem "fire and Ice" indoors the main suitable stanza, even with the reality that it is so obtrusive, i'm particular he thought human beings could comprehend his version as a homage.

Answer 6

you have the copy rights