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Am I legally allowed to expand someone else's short story into a novel?
For years I told a short story in my kindergarten classroom. It was written and freely shared by the writer. I rewrote the short story (2-3 pages) into a middle grade chapter book, expanding the plot, ...
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Can I modify and turn my published short stories into a novel?
I'm writing some short stories that are all connected and are set in the same universe, because I planned to put them together into a novel later. My question is: If I publish those short stories, can ...
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What if my published short story is made a movie or a novel, without my permission?
I am writing a short story and thinking of publishing it in the next month.
But then, I had a doubt. What if somebody takes it, expands it and changes it a bit and makes a movie or a novel out of it? ...
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Do I stand to lose anything if I reprint an already published story on my own site?
I've got a story published in print with limited circulation. From what I can tell, my first publication rights are spent.
I like this story and I want to make it available to more people, so I'm ...
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How similar can something be before an idea is *stolen*?
I'm looking to write a Metamorphosis style short story where the reader wakes up as an animal for no apparent reason, and everything goes crazy.
Now, the Kafkain influence is clear just from this ...
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What will be the copyright situation if I self-publish an anthology of my unpublished short stories?
If I'm planning on self-publishing an anthology of unpublished short stories that I wrote, do I also need to copyright each story, or will the entire anthology's copyright suffice for each story?
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Is it plagiarism to adapt a known figure into a fictional charcter?
What if I decide to write a story with a character based off a historical figure but under a different name?
For example:
(1) I write a story with a hero named Tom, who is a political figure.
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Children's book copyright issues
I recently finished writing a children's book about the moon. I was ready to submit it to different publishers when I came across another book with the same idea on the internet. This book is also ...
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Do I need to copyright a short story before I send it?
If I attempt to publish a short story in a magazine, can there be an issue of copywriting? Do I need to somehow "insure" my work before I send it?
And if so, how?
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Can I use general short stories to publish on my site, blog, etc.?
I want to post some short stories on my blog. But I am not sure about the copyrights of those stories. Because those stories were available in many places online. Can I publish them on my site or ...
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