[Woodcarver] Ownership of published articles

[maricha]

not only a great answer but your articlesin the mallet here in australia,
helped tremendously for me and others to get started particularly in carving
faces, as they were written, clearly, and the steps so easy to follow, and
we did learn.   thanks thanks thanks.
cheers
maricha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivan Whillock Studio" <carve at whillock.com>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:32 AM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Ownership of published articles


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> To explain the ownership of authored material, let me describe it from the
> point of view of the writer.  When you write an article, you own all
rights
> to that article.  Nobody can do anything with it without your permission.
> If you decide to make some money off it,  you can sell some or all of
those
> rights to a magazine.  If you sell all of the rights, the publishers can
do
> anything they want with it.  Publish it, not publish it.  Make a video
from
> it, republish it in a book, etc.  Selling all of the rights means  that
the
> author gives up the opportunity to benefit from all subsequent uses of the
> article.  Therefore, most experienced writers sell only specific rights to
> the publisher--"First North American Rights," for example.  That means the
> publisher has first use of the article and can publish it once in a
magazine
> in North America.  After that,  the author owns all of the rights again.
> Then, if the publisher wants to come out with a compilation of published
> articles, or use it in another way, he would have to get permission from
the
> author again, and likely negotiate another fee.    Most freelance writers
> state the rights they are selling on the first page of their manuscripts.
If
> the material is accepted, then a contract between the author and the
> publisher specifies what rights are being purchased, whether they are all
> rights, first North American rights, international rights, or other
> specified rights to the material.
>
> Legal protections extend to sales as well.   When someone buys a book or
> magazine, they are not buying all rights to the material.  They are buying
> the rights the author and/or publisher specifies on the copyright page.
>
> However, those notices don't usually specify the long list of rights that
> ARE being sold "you can make carvings with the patterns, line your bird
cage
> with it, etc."--but they usually specify which rights are NOT included in
> the purchase of the book or magazine.  "No part of this book may be
> reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any for or by
> any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise
> without the written permission of the publisher."  Most of that lawyer
> language is designed to protect the author's right to profit from his
> efforts, without having to compete against pirated versions of his own
work.
>
> As you can see, the rights to material in the Mallet, though now out of
> print, could still be owned by the authors.  I know I still own all the
> rights to all the material I sent them.
>
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