How to avoid copyright infringement when writing a book?

When writing a book, fiction or nonfiction, you are probably focused on the art of writing, but copyright infringement issues should be considered. Accusations of infringement can have disastrous personal and professional consequences. read more

When writing a book, fiction or nonfiction, you are probably focused on the art of writing, but copyright infringement issues should be considered. Accusations of infringement can have disastrous personal and professional consequences. You can avoid copyright infringement by carefully creating your own work and knowing the law when copying. read more

Any published source, including both books and websites, is protected by copyright, unless it is old enough to have its copyright expired (unlikely for any reference you would be using). The words used by a copyrighted source are protected. read more

For example, copyright doesn't prevent you from expressing in your own words ideas and facts found in a book or journal you read. If you express ideas and facts in your own words, you should always give appropriate credit to the sources in which you found them. read more