Dear wattpad readers.
When you read my book please keep in mind that the book might still need some editing and that even though I have edited the book I only used Microsoft Word spelling and grammar check and my dictionary is set on US.
Please don’t write comments you yourself would find offensive and rude. Don’t treat others like you don’t want to be treated. No one is equally talented and no one is perfect. Respect the writer and his / her ideas.
Please do not copy any books that is not your own. Copied work is stolen work. You don’t deserve the credit for it.
Copyright protection as per South Africa Publishing Association
# In every book, journal, periodical or magazine there are two separate but interlinked
copyrights.
1. The literary work or content: Copyright usually belongs to the author, unless he or she has
\transferred copyright to the publisher.
2. The published edition or typographical arrangement on the page: (Typography is the
planning, selection and setting of type for a printed work.) Copyright in the published edition
belongs to the publisher.
Copyright in the published edition lasts for 50 years from date of publication. Even when
copyright in the literary work has expired, copyright in the published edition may still exist.
# In South Africa you do not need to register copyright (however, you may do so in the case of
cinematographic films) as you would patents and trademarks. Copyright arises automatically -
in other words, the ideas you express on the page become your intellectual property as you
write them.
# South Africa is a signatory to the Berne Convention, an international agreement on
copyright. Countries that have signed the Berne Convention have agreed to offer the same
protection to literary and artistic works from other member nations as they offer to their own.
This is known as the principle of national treatment. This means that your work is protected in
the United Kingdom, for example, under the British Copyright Act.
# Copyright Acts differ from country to country, but all have basic characteristics in common
and must afford the minimum protection agreed upon in the Berne Convention. The South
African Copyright Act is in the Anglo tradition, which means that the Act is similar in many
respects to the British and the Commonwealth Acts.
http://www.publishsa.co.za/downloads/copyright_information_guide.pdf
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