Google has some avenues you can use to have personal information taken down, but copyrighted information is a different story. If the person who stole your work owns the site, you may have issues getting the work taken down. Tell the web admin the work is plagiarism. Usually, this will consist of someone republishing a story or a poem in their name. If you publish your work on the web, there is a genuine chance that someone might decide to take your writing. It is rare for a publisher to steal a manuscript, but it is not rare for people to steal your work online. It is not as ironclad as having your work documented through US Copyright Office, but it might give you peace of mind. DON’T OPEN IT when it is delivered back to you, and you’ll have government-documented proof that you wrote the manuscript. Your second option, which many writers have done for a long time, is to send yourself a copy of your manuscript in the mail. If you want evidence of you being the author of your manuscript, you can, of course, have it copyrighted through the copyright office. US Law says that anything you write on paper is immediately copyrighted, so the right is always and already in place you need proof you wrote it. This process is lengthy, costing $30-$40, depending on what you have copyrighted. First, you could have it copyrighted through the United States Copyright Office. If you are still worried about this, there are two ways to protect your manuscript. Most of the time, you don’t have to worry about a book publisher taking your book and publishing it without your permission. Publishers make money from the books and their relationships with those authors. Legitimate publishers are not going to steal your work or ideas. They are concerned that a publisher will steal the manuscript, publish it, and leave the author out of the loop of making money from work. People email me, saying, “Hey, if I send my manuscript to a publisher, will they steal my work?” The author of the email is usually somewhat frantic. Ok, so I get this question all the time, and to the best of my knowledge, I’ve never written an article about it.
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