Last week I showed you how to register your book for copyright in a step-by-step tutorial. Now that your book is registered for copyright, it's time to create the copyright page for your book. In this video, I'm going section by section through my own copyright page to show you the different elements you might want to include in your book's copyright page.
Learn how to copyright your book:
In this video:
0:00 – Intro
1:43 – Copyright notice
2:11 – Work of fiction statement
2:50 – ISBN
3:46 – All rights reserved statement
4:25 – Publisher information
5:21 – AI notice
6:54 – Freelancer credit
8:01 – Websites
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Mandi Lynn published her first novel when she was seventeen. The author of multiple books, Mandi spends her days continuing to write and creating YouTube videos to help other writers achieve their dreams of seeing their books published. Mandi is the owner of Stone Ridge Books, a company that works to help authors bring their books to life through cover design and digital book marketing. She is also the creator of The Book Launch Planner, a planner designed to help authors publish and market their books. When she’s not creating, you can find Mandi exploring her backyard or getting lost in the woods.
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What Goes on the Copyright Page of Your Book? Self-Publishing Tips
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My book is non-fiction. Should I put the copyright page on the back of the title page? This seems to be the norm. Also If I do that do I need the complete title and subtitle on the copyright page too? Thank you for all the videos you’ve posted! This is my first book and I still have a lot to learn about self-publishing!
The court ruled that if the book was purchased legally, it’s fair use and the AI statement means nothing.
What court ruled such?
The same federal court handling the Anthropic case. It still amazes me how little people who seem so concerneddo so little to pay attention.
All AI-copyright infringement cases will be appealed. We won’t know for some time if AI uses of our creative media fits within the scope of Fair Use until the (combined) cases reach the US Supreme Court. Authors should continue to include language that AI use requires a license.
My books are a true story.
May I know which website builder did you use in your author website… thanks!
My issue it that for many providers of ‘free’ ISBNs you do not know the ISBN to put on the Copyrights Page until ‘after’ publication. How do you handle that?
Un KDP, in the upload process, you generate the ISBN before you upload your manuscript. That means you can then go into your manuscript and enter the ISBN before you upload the manuscript.
@@jeannemoore6610 KDP, yes. Not for D2D though.
Question on the use of AI: I use AI all the time for my job (I work in tech) but obviously understand how it’s use and harms are so different when applied to creative works. I’m also so curious if works which state there was no AI use in the making are actually true and wondering where you draw the line when you said “no AI was used” does that mean solely to generate text? . Like for example if you ever lookup a quick fact for setting or historical context on google,
Did you never ever look at the AI summary info? Or in canva when creating book titles did you use any autogenerate images? Similarly if you use grammar tools like grammarly thats all AI, so im just wondering the boundary you personally use but then also what other authors consider when saying “ai was not used” , im thinking it mostly means “ai was not used to generate text verbatim” but wondering if there was really no AI assistance at all.
Literary & artistic works solely created by AI are not copyrightable under US law: Copyright needs human authorship/creativity!
Some writers/artists will lie about including AI in creating their works, and it might be tough to challenge them.
However, if a person wants to register their works with the US Copyright Office, they are required to disclose in their registration application any appreciable amount of AI used to create their work. Those who knowingly make false material statements (lie), like not fully disclosing all the AI uses, are subject to a CRIMINAL fine of up to $2,500. Here’s the statutory citation: Title 17 USC 506(e): False Representation.
Nice videos, great clear instruction by Worcester State’s finest. One thing that was left out of this one was whether to get the LCCN in addition to the ISBN from KDP.