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Hello Forum,

I have 2 questions,

I just started a book, although this doesn't really matter to my questions, but.
I was given a rather large collection of photos, letters, postcards, etc by my
Mother a few years ago, these individuals are well known throughout the
world and are all connected to an event which took place over several years.
Whenever anyone looks at the collection they'd spend hours in awe looking
at all the items. My Mother was doing research on a book and spent over 2
decades interviewing these persons and obtaining the items, unfortunately
my Mother had a stroke years back and could not continue with her book.

I'd had the idea to do a book containing scans of the items and making a
chapter of each individual, achievements, relationship to the 'event', etc.
This is as a tribute to all of my Mothers hard work to her.

I took my idea to a friend who had previously published her own book by an
actual publishing house. I let her review the items over a weekend and on
the Monday following, she pretty much begged to co-author, I played hard
to get for a few minutes, but I welcomed the involvement.

My question(s):

At what point (if I did) would I put my project on Kickstarter? The beginning,
the middle, near the end?

Should I copyright before I put it on KS?

I know this was a rather long post, but you all read anyway.....right?

Thank You, Bunited2

Bunited2 wrote:At what point (if I did) would I put my project on Kickstarter? The beginning,
the middle, near the end?

Should I copyright before I put it on KS?

Hi Bunited2,

Sounds like an interesting project.

When you place your project on Kickstarter it is actually completely up to you. Generally, however, the farther along you are the more you can show and the more trust you can gain in that fact that you'll complete the project. Also, it allows you to give a shorter and more accurate time to delivery.

That being said, it all depends on the project and how excited people get by it. It sounds like you already have a significant amount of material. If you have a compelling story there is no reason why you couldn't get funded straight away given proper exposure and properly presented project.

As for copyright.. I'm not a lawyers, however am a person who has created much contented that has a copyright. In the US works created by author/artist are automatically covered under copyright law. Tho you'll probably want to display a proper copyright notice (i.e. Copyright 2013 Jane Smith). You can, however, register your copyright which will put you in a better position if litigation arises over the copyright. Here is link to site where you can get the form to register your work: http://www.copyright.gov/forms/

Hope that helps!

Agree with VaporStarter - some good info.