Joan Packard wrote:
>>
>> Concerning the issue of copyright of fonts and CARL uncover paying
>> royalties only to authors - my impression was that most journals
>> owned the copyright anyway - not the author. Don't authors
>> automatically sign over copyright to publishers when they agree to
>> have the publisher publish the material?
Scholarly journals customarily obtain copyright from academic authors but professional writers, writing for commercial magazines and newspapers, normally retain copyright. The long-standing custom is for the writer of an original article to license only first serial rights. Many freelance writers earn substantial income from the sale of secondary rights.
Publishers are now attempting to grab more rights - and in particular to grab electronic rights - without paying extra for them, but writers have organized with some success to oppose this. Watch for a joint press release issued today (which will be posted here) by a coalition of writers' groups on the result of action against the New York Times.
Sarah Wernick
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Received on Tue Mar 26 1996 - 15:35:05 GMT
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