Re: Leaning the other way in Princeton v. MDS; What is this?

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   Craig A. Summerhill
   <listmgr[_at_]cni.org>

This message was originally submitted on March 6, 1996
>
> Date: 06 Mar 96 15:31:55 EST
> From: Sarah Wernick <70530.435[_at_]compuserve.com>
> To: Multiple recipients <CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org>
> Subject: Re: Leaning the other way in Princeton v. MDS
>
>
> Christine Sundt wrote:
> >
> > Isn't it the copyright owner (read "publisher") who actually gets
> > these rights? Once copyright is assigned to the publisher, it appears
> > to me that the author hasn't much to hold onto, except the possibility
> > that a new spark of creativity will occur and lead to another work that
> > can be passed onto a publisher who then owns the rights... Is this the
> > original chicken and egg issue?
>
> Sometimes authors transfer copyright to publishers and sometimes they
> don't. Whichever the case, income accruing from specific uses under
> that copyright are often shared by the parties, in which case of course
> the author has an interest in seeing to it that license fees are
> collected. In the case of smaller publishers, or less commercial
> ventures of larger publishers, authors have an interest in seeing that
> publishers continue to collect a share of license fees (if not the whole
> pot), because those fees contribute to enabling the publisher to keep on
> publishing such ventures.
>
> I see no confusion at all.
>
> Posted by:
> Sarah Wernick
> <70530.435[_at_]compuserve.com>
>
> on behalf of
> Dan Carlinsky
> Chair, Contracts Committee
> American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
Received on Fri Mar 15 1996 - 18:26:37 GMT