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05-06-2016, 03:16 PM | #76 | |
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Now, with the advent of ebooks, books never go out of print. Nor, do I think we will find, that they continue to make most of their money in the few years after publication. But of course, legacy publishing advances not only fail to reflect this. Anecdotally they have declined drastically. Royalty rates still fail to reflect this new reality, though there is some public discussion, and even the Authors Guild asked nicely for an increase, though stopped short of taking out a full page NYT ad. How royalties are calculated in these contracts and the unfair provisions including reduced royalties in various scenarios is receiving less attention, but has not changed. The only conclusion I can reach based on the above is that in general legacy publishers payments to authors do not and probably never have reflected the length of copyright. Instead, I speculate that such payments reflected a very limited projected economic life for the books in question. Thus the ridiculous copyright lengths we now see are not justified by the public policy goals the US constitution sets out. |
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How can royalties earned after the author is dead encourage him to write more? A ghost author?
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US != UK our laws come with Added Redundancy. |
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