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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I don't know if this is as prevalent as it once was, but Harlequin used to require authors to transfer copyright to them, although it might have been overturned since then. She stopped publishing with them in the 2000s, if I remember correctly, and commented often how frustrated she was that Harlequin kept publishing her backlist. She finally got it back a few or so years ago.
I saw a blog post or comment by her on this, but I don't remember details.
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It could be what Harry calls an exclusive publishing contract and which seem to be pretty well the norm. In most cases there is really very little practical difference between such a contract and an assignment of the whole of the copyright.