How to Get Published

A Rerun

By Al Kalar

Writers write

Copyrights aren’t just one thing; they’re a bundle of rights. Examples:

• First North American rights
• First World rights
• First hard cover rights
• Electronic rights
• Movie rights
• Television rights
• Exclusive rights for a period of time
• Non-competition rights (no sales to another magazine for instance)
• and so on.

You’ve found a publisher. Now, which rights do you sell to them? (more…)

by Al Philipson

Rights

When you create a manuscript in any readable form, you automatically receive “copyrights” to that work. You can sue for actual damages is someone intrudes upon those rights. If you register you copyright, you can also sue for “punitive” damages.

What most people fail to realize is that, like property rights, copyrights are actually a “bundle” of rights.

A property “owner” may not “own” the subsurface rights to his property. Here in the Northwest, where Weyerhouser has owned so much of the property that it subsequently sold to developers, the original owner has retained the “subsurface” rights. That means that if oil is discovered on your property, you don’t own it; someone else does.

Now, how does this apply to copyrights? (more…)