Can I Protect a Work of Fiction?

August 16, 2017

Many authors have have worked hard to produce novels, short stories and other types of fiction and they alone should decide how their work is used. Technically speaking, as soon as an author creates a work of fiction, they have a copyright in that work. It’s automatic under the law. However, if anyone decides ro challenges the ownership of the work, or tries to copy it, it becomes necessary to provide proof that the work belongs to you and you will have to prove the date of its creation. How can you do that? The answer is CopyrightDrive.com.

While it takes a lot of hard work to create your work of fiction, protecting your copyright is easy with CopyrightDrive.com. We provide you with a place where you can store your work securely, so that you can always prove both your ownership and a date certain for its creation. With that proof, no one can get away with infringing on your copyright.

Besides the top-notch copyright protection, there are other advantages to depositing your fiction writing into the CopyrightDrive.com system. For example, you will have a secure backup of your work. Also, your work can be featured in your very own profile at the CopyrghtDrive.com site, so that you can promote your work, your company or anything else, while at the same time demonstrating that you have the strongest copyright protection available.

It is easy to deposit your work of fiction into the CopyrightDrive.com archive and once you do, the protection you receive is complete, instantaneous and lasts a lifetime. When you upload your work of fiction onto our drive, it is placed in the hands of a public notary whose job it is to make sure your copyright deposit is certified, retained in pristine condition and is accessible to you whenever you need it. The best part is, it proves everything in a way that is incontestable in a court or other legal setting. That is because, once your work is in the system, it is completely secure and cannot be altered by anyone, including you. If you want to deposit a new revision of your fictional work, you will have to make a new deposit because the only way to protect your copyright is to make sure it is not changed at any time.

Your deposit with CopyrightDrive.com serves as an official witness of your right to your novel or other fictional work for the life of the copyright, which is life plus 70 years. The copyright protection provided by CopyrightDrive.com is also international in scope, since your deposit protects your work in all 174 countries who have signed on to the Berne Convention. That means, almost no one in the world can copy your work and get away with it legally, if you protect it with CpyrightDrive.com.