Hey everyone, just curious how you guys go about protecting your writing and ideas. I’m very much an amateur but would really like to start sharing my writing, short stories etc. But I’m not sure how you go about protecting yourself from your work getting stolen?
In our opinion, concerns about IP are way overblown.
Very rarely do people get their work stolen. This only tends to happen when someone with superior publishing capabilities gets a hold on a really good draft from you and publishes it before yourself. If someone just claims to be the author of something you made after you published it, no matter how where, they’ve got zero plausible deniability as long as the first publisher may easily be determined.
If you’re really paranoid about someone impersonating you, you can sign your works with gpg. Then as long as nobody steals or hacks your computer you should be fine.