Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I recently got to know about that 'simultaneous
submissions' rule. However, I was wondering, and you would know since you are an
editor, is a magazine that receives an article obligated to respond to the
author, regardless of whether the piece is accepted or not? Because otherwise, I
might submit something to a certain institution, let's say regarding current
affairs, and if the mag does not get back to me, how would I know if I can
submit to another place or not, seeing as I would be especially anxious because
my piece will get outdated soon enough? Thanks again.
I don't know about the legal details here, but I do know that in the publishing world it is considered highly unethical to submit identical (or even similar) material to more than one publisher at the same time. In part this is to avoid problems such as the one you are facing now, and in part it is to minimize the possibility that publishers put effort into reviewing a submission only to have it "de-submitted" by an author who chooses to publish elsewhere.
--Frederick Emrich
> Hello,
> I was wondering if someone who knows the law could help me out here.
>
> Recently, I sent an article of mine to a couple of magazines, some based
in the
> US and others elsewhere. Now, I said in my letter that if any institution
was
> interested in publishing my piece, I would like to know beforehand. Two
> magazines (one in the US, one in the UK) responded, saying they were
interested,
> but at the same time, I came to know that another magazine (based in the
US) had
> already printed my article without informing me. Although I did not have
any
> problem with that, I was now confused as to whether I could let the other
two
> magazines who had actually replied, print my piece or not. When I called
those
> who had printed my piece to ask regarding this, they said sure, we give
> permission, but the other magazines must cite us as the source. I don't
agree
> with them, because, firstly, I requested to be informed before publication
of my
> article which they didn't, and secondly, because I did not receive any
monetary
> compensation or anything of the sort from the magazine or even any
contract that
> would stipulate that by simply submitting my article to their email
address I
> give away my entire rights to my original work to them (not that my work
is
> really copyrighted by law), and thirdly, the other two magazines received
my
> work directly from me. Am I right? Please let me know.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
> Sincerely,
> SA
>
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