Is publishing the same as copyrighting?

Answer 1

Anything you write or create automatically is copyrighted by you by law although unsure with things like digital photos and such how one could prove they are the original owner. You can put the little C with your name (and sometimes year) mark on anything you create just to remind people that it IS copyrighted and not free for anyone to do whatever they want with it.

Publishing is the "production" of your work ie turning your writings into books to sell. Most people think of publishers as companies although it is possible to be a self-publisher print your own, promote and sell them yourself this way you hold your future in your own hands not some company who you have to pay, just in order from them to print and sell your books.

If you are into writing, art or graphics and are interested in publishing your own work check out CafePress or Lulu.

Answer 2

No, unfortunately publishing and copyrighting (in all their various forms) are almost never the same.

Publish: Publishing is the activity of putting information into the public arena. It is relevant to two specific legal issues:
*as the process of giving formal notice to the world of a significant intention
*as the essential precondition of being able to claim for defamation,

Copyright: A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by government for a limited time to protect the particular form, way or manner in which an idea or information is expressed. Copyright is a type of intellectual property.

Namely, publishing material (as on the Internet, or through print media) is nothing more than making that material available to the world at large. Copyrighting material (often a product of "publishing" a work, esp. through a publishing company or house) is limiting the availability of that work, specifically by petitioning the government to provide certain restrictions on replication.

Answer 3

Publisher and copyright holder are both different persons, a copy right holder is the author of a piece of art, literary works, drama, novels, story etc etc and a publisher is a person who or a publishing house who takes the copyright from the author or rights of the work and publishes it as a book or film etc etc.

Answer 4

No. Publishing is bringing a text to public knowledge. Copyright is the right to distribute that text for money. It's something like that: the farmer (author) gives his tomatoes (work) to a retailer(publisher) who will then sell the tomatoes to restaurants&supermarkets (bookstores). The right that the author grants the publisher so that the latter may distribuite the work is called a copyright.

Answer 5

publishing means producing or printing a book, news, poems, literary works, novels, etc.... not necessarily original but anything that has to be printed.

copyrighting is editing an earlier work, earlier publish ones... then publishing it later on. that is copyrighting....

Answer 6

no