Editing Publishing (section)

==Legal issues==
{{Main|Publication}}

Publication is the distribution of copies or [[Content (media and publishing)|content]] to the [[General public|public]].<ref name="bc">{{cite web |author=WIPO |url=http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#P98_14701 |title=Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works |publisher=Wipo.int |access-date=19 November 2012 |archive-date=11 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911051959/http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#P98_14701 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ucc">{{cite web|url=http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/lipa/copyrights/The%20Universal%20Copyright%20Convention%20_Geneva%20Text--September.pdf |title=Microsoft Word – The Universal Copyright Convention _Geneva Text—September |access-date=19 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125161930/http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/lipa/copyrights/The%20Universal%20Copyright%20Convention%20_Geneva%20Text--September.pdf |archive-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> The [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Berne Convention]] requires that this can only be done with the consent of the copyright holder, which initially is always the author.<ref name="bc"/> In the [[Universal Copyright Convention]], "publication" is defined in Article VI as "the reproduction in tangible form and the general distribution to the public of copies of a work from which it can be read or otherwise visually perceived."<ref name="ucc"/>