Copyright..What to do?

There are many ways to copyright your book and for most authors the poor man copyright meets the need of the average author publishing a book. The poor man version involves mailing a copy of your manuscript to yourself registered mail and not opening it; what this does is time date the manuscript and that’s all a copyright really does. In fact just having it on your computer is a form of copyright for it to time dates your manuscript.
Registering your book with the Library of Congress (LOC) is another and formal way to copyright your book. You just go on line, they will ask you to fill out a form called a short form TX, send in about $40 and two copies of the book. This process can take as long as a year for you to get certified.
The only difference between the LOC copyright and the poor man version is that with the LOC version you can sue for damages, of course you would have to prove it and pay the legal fees.
So in short, the poor man copy right works just fine and will allow you to make someone stop using your material with out your permission.

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