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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
Perhaps so, I may be wrong. I have however come across instances of Publishers holding the Publishing rights to certain titles and preventing the author and other publishers from republishing the titles.
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That certainly happens, though it also happens that publishing companies will revert the rights when they have no plans for a book, even if they are not required to by the contract. It just depends on the whims of whoever is making the decision. That's why authors should have good literary agents. Some people have the attitude that I'm not going to give up anything unless you pay me. Heck, there are a lot of cases where the heirs of the author are the ones preventing publishers who want to publish a backlist book from publishing it. They want to hold out for a big payout. Another reason I don't like the current copyright system.