RE: Re: A little help...

From: Mike Bradley <mbradley[_at_]techpubs.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:55:02 -0400

> > So you hire a writer, and give her some ideas for a
> > story. Copyright
> > subsists in the result, to which you have exclusive rights.

More info needed, please, to understand why you believe you own the rights to the story.

If this were a typical US magazine editor suggesting story ideas to a freelance writer, the writer would own the rights until s/he transferred them to the magazine. In a less typical US situation, the writer would have signed a work-for-hire contract before writing a specific story (not a story based on "some ideas"), in which case the rights to the story would belong to the magazine.

Received on Wed Apr 13 2005 - 00:55:02 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Mar 26 2007 - 00:35:54 GMT