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Old 11-04-2008, 11:25 AM   #228
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
Authors have this option before they sign a contract with a publisher, but usually not afterward. And the Creative Commons concept hasn't been around long enough to have been an option for the vast majority of works that are out of print, with rights tied up and often unavailable to authors or functioning publishers.
How true is this? I know at least some authors, Jeffery Carver for example, have self published books on line. Also, I think that for many older works, say those that existed before 1990 or so, that the rights probably were limited to the print version of the book (after all, film rights would usually be sold by the author not the publisher).

In any case, I have to imagine that most publishing contracts must contain a clause that requires the work to remain in print (or at least not be out of print for more than a given period) or rights will revert to the author. Granted, I am sure some authors have signed contracts that did give away all of their rights, but others, I am not so sure about.

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