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Originally Posted by Hitch
Agreed. As some of you may recall, in my former life, I was Sr. Veep of a Strategic Planning and Litigation Strategy Division. I would NEVER have let that wording stand as-was. NEVAH. It's too amorphous, and bottom line, they absolutely ARE SAYING that they retain the print rights, period. I suspect it's amorphous on purpose. There's ambiguity by amateurs, that is not intentional--that's not what that is.
So, Gregg: archive that email, and even print it out and save it in your physical files. Get it date-stamped if you can. Make sure you get all the header info. I don't foresee some future in which you come to legal blows, but nonetheless: the wording says one thing, the email says something completely different. You are, basically, precluded from selling the print rights to someone else, for all intents and purposes.
And please: don't ever agree to terms like that again. This is how people end up spilling their guts on Preditors and Editors; they don't understand the cold-hard-world reality of legal documents, and terms and conditions. I can't speak to other countries, but here in the US, we are a "nation of laws," and that knife cuts BOTH ways.
Hitch
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Would getting it notarized or snail mailing a copy to yourself be a good idea in such a case Hitch or would that be overkill?