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Originally Posted by HarryT
A contract with a publisher last for exactly as long as the contract states. One would have to be rather foolish to sign a contract which assigns all rights for 35 years with no escape clause, I think!
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The current baseline contracts offered by the BPHs are life of copyright contracts.
(Remember the Helix flap?)
One of many reasons why indie publishing is on the upsurge: the supply of fools willing to sign on those terms isn't that large.
But alas it might be large enough to support the practice.