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Originally Posted by derangedhermit
Once an author and a publisher make a deal, does the publisher own the right to reprint forever? Can the publisher transfer (sell, I suppose) publication rights?
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That would depend on the contract he signed, which you wouldn't get access to unless it went to court. For pulp fiction, nobody really thought they would have much of an afterlife following publication, so you might be lucky. Authorisation from a surviving relative is better than nothing, but if someone sent a DMCA to Amazon they'd be pulled from sale regardless of who owns the rights.