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Originally Posted by meeera
I don't want to see a precedent of editors succeeding in claiming co-authorship and co-ownership of copyrights. Apart from the issue of extending an already extremely long term of copyright, how about the issue of editors in the future potentially taking revenue away from authors' families? It's a giant nest of worms.
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Which is precisely why I said in a previous post that any author who employs a "creative editor", such as a story development editor, needs to be very clear what the contractual terms are under which the work is being done, because otherwise there is a possibility that the kind of "can of worms" that you refer to could crop up years down the road.