Author: COSMICBEAUTY
Modified on 06/10/2007
Today, the business of eBooks (electronic books) has grown with such magnitude that it has become a very sustainable and profitable business, especially in courses, manuals and / or guides.
In this guide I invite you to orientate yourself on the register of Copyrights if you dedicate yourself to publishing and selling eBooks.
In my personal experience, I recommend to all your work record and / or compilation before it is put up for sale. I was getting substantial income from my full authorship eBooks, and decided to find a way to register my work, I found a company that offers the service to make your record without your lifting a finger, under certain cost, well, since today’s after almost two months I have no signs that my record is ready.
Meanwhile other people were “ready” they searched my own and this work how I began to create problems with my publications. Why I had to go directly to INDAUTOR, How I should do from the beginning!
It’s very frustrating that someone else profiting from your work done, and even give you heart attack low publications for that reason why I invite you read this guide And you put the batteries in your registry!
STEP 1. Initially you should use YOUR OWN DISCRETION to assess what we’re going to record, does the work is completely yours?, if so, but it illustrated “the images are yours?, remember that the images are on the network may or may not be owned, yet ethically you should not record images or photographs are not of your authorship in the future may bring you problems and if the author of the images you recorded begins a legal action, you can get affected as well retire the record.
What if your eBook has pictures, which are an integral part of it?, Retirement?, SIAt the time of registering your work, present it how a literary work, So be more protected. This advice given to you by the same people INDAUTOR.
Leave your eBook intact if every image and every word are your total authorship.
However, if the material is not yours (only compiled and edited later) and obtained from various sources of the Network, simply by registering under “Build”, “Adaptation” and / or “Translation”, seeks to have on hand the sources where you got the information.
STEP 2. Prepare TWO COPIES your eBook, you can print, but it is easiest to do it digitally, ie, 2 CD’s each with a copy of your file.
STEP 3. Download the formats you need to fill.
Enter the official website of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and get a menu on the left side of the page., Click on “INSTITUTIONAL”
In “Institutional” find menus on both sides of the page, in the right hand menu, click on “Decentralized Bodies”
Finally, in “decentralized body of the SEP” INDAUTOR find the link to click “More”
Once INDAUTOR choose the topic of interest. In this case “Forms and Requirements, Filing”
(Recommended reading the FAQ)
Download Format RPDA-01 (For “literary or artistic works”), is in DOC, PDF and JPG, I suggest that you download it in PDF, print it and fill it with print or electric typewriter, as the Word (doc ) can not fill.
Download “Road to Help Banks payments by Step”Its link is below where it says: “Literary and Artistic”
If your eBook is based on various sources, download the form RPDA-01-A2.
If your eBook is a collaboration of two or more people download the format RPDA-01-A1
STEP 4. Print and complete FORMATS
Fill out the form RPDA-01:
- Fill out Section 1
- Leave blank Section 2 (since it is assumed that the holder is the same as the author)
- Leave blank Section 3 (legal representative) as you yourself are doing the processing
In the Second leaf:
- Tacha literary
- Tacha Primigenia or derivative according to your eBook and supplements.
- On ‘accompanying documents’, cross 2 copies and proof of payment.
Fill out the “Help Sheet”
It is extremely easy, all you provide name, RFC and CURP.
STEP 5. Go to your bank branch and presents the closest “Help Sheet” at the counter and make your payment $148.00 (which costs the procedure for registration of each volume). They will prepare a payment voucher.
STEP 6. Present yourself in INDAUTOR if you live in Mexico City, presenting the formats, the two copies of your eBook and proof of payment INDAUTOR address is on the FAQ page of the SEP, is super close to the Metro Cuauhtemoc (a couple Street), introduce yourself early, office hours, preferably before 1pm.
If you live outside the City, Look on the page of SEP management of the offices of the SEP in your area, then goes to a Messaging Express and buy 2 Guides. Introduce yourself in your State SEP with the express parcel 2 guides, formats, the 2 copies of your eBook and your receipt. One of the guides are used to send your documents to INDAUTOR (here, in Mexico City), and another used to send your registration.
COMMENTS
- INDAUTOR notifies you in 2 weeks, and you can pick up your registry if it proceeded, if you live in the provinces can take 3 weeks or more to arrive to you.
- There’s a link on the page to see your status, but it was not updated, the same way you can stay informed, communicating by telephone.
- Prices can rise in indeterminate time, try to check that price is in effect. So far the record price remains $148
ETHICS
Unfortunately for others, there is a substantial likelihood that your registration is processed even when some part or all of text and images, NON your authorship. But it is a risk, as well as being fraudulent and grossly unfair. Sometimes we think we can take text or images on the network without problems, but reality is that over 90% already registered, and the only thing that can happen is that you get into legal trouble when you least expect it. Do not trust even if it is a page in another language, or text that you appear to “public domain”. Simply NO nothing you register Not done, The consequences could cost you more than you think, you know that may require compensating damages?, With compensation $ $ $ brutal, so please RESPECT THE WORK OF OTHERS.
What is the difference between the registration of Copyright and All Rights Reserved?
Both legally guarantee that you are the author, and the laws protect you, but:
- The Copyright are specified in a work (no subsequent amendments), whose title is still yours even 100 years after your death.
- The All Rights Reserved are for “periodicals”, ie a newspaper, a newsletter, an ezine (electronic magazine), when physical media is done under the name of the publication (newspaper or magazine), in digital media is made by the web page name (not your address, but the site name), and everything that contains the site is protected against the laws, even as yet unpublished, this record is more expensive and lasts for 1 year.
Of course you can follow it step by step guide if your work is literary, musical, photographic, pictorial, etc..
It is somewhat cumbersome, but simple and cheap, do not hesitate to make your registration!
PROTECT YOUR JOB, IT’S YOUR RIGHT!