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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
A middling author has a reasonable backlist. The contract he signed with the publisher assigns copyright to the publisher. (Common practise I believe.)
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I’d just note that this is NOT common practice at all. Publishing contracts do not transfer copyright to the publisher. The only area of publishing in which it is common is academic journal publishing. I’ve never, ever, heard of it happening with book publication. Can you give an example?