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dickon25 · 10-08-2009, 01:53 PM

I despair.
I had hoped that the publishers were getting together to resolve this issue, not reinforce it!
Some hope!
Out of interest (and one of our authors or publishers may be able to answer this) what is to stop an author negotiating with a single publisher and selling it the worldwide rights to a book, the whole shebang? Why do the rights packages have to be arranged in regional sections? As I understand it, a UK author sells the UK/EU rights to say, Random House then will seperately sell the US/Can rights to a US publisher and so on for other regions. I know that different countries have differing copyright rules and that requires governments to act but, surely the publishers must realise that all media is now global and these restrictions will hurt them in the long run??

10-08-2009, 01:53 PM	#6
dickon25 Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 818 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Device: Sony PRS-505. Pocketbook Inkpad 840	I despair. I had hoped that the publishers were getting together to resolve this issue, not reinforce it! Some hope! Out of interest (and one of our authors or publishers may be able to answer this) what is to stop an author negotiating with a single publisher and selling it the worldwide rights to a book, the whole shebang? Why do the rights packages have to be arranged in regional sections? As I understand it, a UK author sells the UK/EU rights to say, Random House then will seperately sell the US/Can rights to a US publisher and so on for other regions. I know that different countries have differing copyright rules and that requires governments to act but, surely the publishers must realise that all media is now global and these restrictions will hurt them in the long run??