Originally posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware and reblogged via TRSA:
SFWA’s Contracts Committee has recently been seeing a proliferation of contracts from small magazines, and a very few established markets, that license all derivative rights in perpetuity.
This is a red flag for a number of reasons, even if these rights are licensed non-exclusively.
A derivative work is defined by copyright law as “a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.”
This sort of rights grab is by no means normal; magazines generally only take very limited first publication and archival rights for a limited time.
Licensing the right to create derivative works can and mostly likely will interfere with the author’s right to exploit their right to create or license derivative works to others.
The risks of signing such contracts can be serious.
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Thanks for helping spread the word, Sue ❤️
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Glad to do so, Chris. xx
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Well, someone’s getting greedy!
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Aren’t they?
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Reblogged this on Claire Plaisted – Indie Author and commented:
Must read…RED ALERT
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Thanks for sharing this, Claire.
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Welcome Sue
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Life was hard enough for writers? We need more?
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Sneaky, underhand, immoral…
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thanks for sharing this, Michael 🙂
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Thanks for this great share Sue. I’ve bookmarked for future reference. ❤
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I’m thanking Chris for flagging it up ❤
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