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Originally Posted by Farhad
ok. check here.
The copyright law gives an author of a work a bundle of exclusive rights to do and authorize others to do the following with the work:
To reproduce the work
To distribute copies of the work to the public
To prepare derivative works based on the work
To display the work publicly
To perform the work publicly
Under the traditional academic publication model an author typically transfers all copyright interests to a publisher. If authors relinquish all their copyright interests to the publisher, the author loses the ability to use his or her own work without permission from the publisher. |
I'm not talking about academic publishing, but fiction. You're right about academic publishing - in that case, it is indeed common for copyright to be vested in the publisher (I'm a textbook author myself). But with fiction, it's just not done.