For an excellent explanation of the law and your rights, visit the website for the U. Copyright Office. Thanks for advice! I have completed a manuscript that relies heavily on extensive interviews from people I worked and lived with as a teenage civil rights worker in rural Alabama in I have heard that I need to get written releases from these people prior to publication. Does someone have a copy of a legal form? I'm lookinfg for guidance to determine the use of Creative Commons licenses for literature in general and poetry in particular.
If you are unfamiliar with the organization, very basically, it grants a license that modifies a copyright by the creator's wishes for a work to be used, built upon with or without charge as the originator desires. Details are at CreativeCommons. My question is, do you know of anyone using such a license or having experience with the organization? Glossary of Rights All Rights The right to own your work.
This grants a publication the non-exclusive right to use your material once but not necessarily "first". For example, you might license one-time rights to a column to several non-competing newspapers. Second Rights or Reprint Rights. Once you've sold FNASR, your next sale of the same material is likely to be covered under "second rights" or "reprint rights.
Often, the original publisher will ask to be credited when material is reprinted. As with one-time rights, you can often license "second rights" to more than one publication simultaneously.
Electronic Rights. This catch-all phrase is extremely hazardous to writers, as it makes no distinction between different types of electronic publication -- e.
Consequently, if you license "electronic rights" to one form of electronic publisher, you may lose the right to sell that material to another and completely different type of publication. It's wise, therefore, to specify the type of electronic rights you are licensing.
If you're selling material to an e-zine, you might wish to specify that the license is for "first Internet use. Be wary of transferring away all electronic rights, or you may lose the right to post your work on your own website!
As mentioned above, many publications are now attempting to claim "electronic rights" as a part of FNASR. When you license FNASR to a print publication, be sure to ask whether the editor believes this "includes" the right to reproduce your material on a website or in another electronic form.
If so, have this use included in writing -- and note any exclusions that you feel are necessary for your protection. All Rights. This term, loathed by writers, is often used by publishers who want to avoid the need to buy additional rights later.
By acquiring all rights, for example, a publisher acquires electronic rights as well. Once you've sold "all rights" to a piece, you can never sell that piece again. All you retain is the right to claim authorship.
You may even be precluded from selling revisions or rewrites of the same material. That doesn't mean that you should never sell "all rights. If you do sell "all rights," however, be sure that you are being adequately compensated. Work for Hire. Business of Writing. Breaking In. Be Inspired. Writing Prompts. The Writer's Life. Writing Quotes. Vintage WD. From the Magazine. WD Competitions. Annual Competition. Self-Published Book. Self-Published Ebook. Popular Fiction.
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