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If I were to start working on my novel Farmy Dome and post parts of it on this forum for suggestions, are there any laws protecting my work until it is finished?

Or should I write the premise down and mail it to myself to give it an official date of creation?

You should check the TOS of nation states. By posting it here you may be assigning what copyright - if any - to Jolt or Max Barry.

If I were to start working on my novel Farmy Dome and post parts of it on this forum for suggestions, are there any laws protecting my work until it is finished?

Or should I write the premise down and mail it to myself to give it an official date of creation?

untill it's complete, it's still a work in progress. so anyone can work on the idea.

writing it down and sending to yourself in the mail will say when you thought it up, (don't open the envelope, keep it sealed) but its not really legally binding.

If I were to start working on my novel Farmy Dome and post parts of it on this forum for suggestions, are there any laws protecting my work until it is finished?

Or should I write the premise down and mail it to myself to give it an official date of creation?
I do fail to see how copyright does only apply for finished works. From the ethical stance: if you stole my draft of hadisveja (a novel, I am writing) and completed it, it'd be against my wishes (if I wouldn't have allowed derivative works in my license, but meh). The issue would be that the text is reasonable in size. You can not copyright a sentence or a word :)

BTW: May I recommend a site to choose a license: www.creativecommons.org ;)

You should check the TOS of nation states. By posting it here you may be assigning what copyright - if any - to Jolt or Max Barry.

Ouch, hadn't thought of that. Would be pretty nifty for him to get a whole book written by someone else wouldn't it?