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08-06-2018, 01:50 AM | #16 | |
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I see what you mean - we talked about different contracts. I thought you meant the contract between publisher and seller. That contract cannot trump copyright. But you were talking about the contract(s) between author and publisher(s) - where the author signed over the rights to publish.
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Don't most contracts have a time (or some other conditions) when the rights to a book reverts to the author of a work Hitch?
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Lesson for you folks who iz writin' dem books: if you sign a publishing contract, make sure that the terms and timeframe for your rights of reversion are clearly spelt out, and that the DEFAULT is that it reverts to you. HTH. Hitch |
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I always insisted on as-published, DRM-Free copies in all three formats -- mobi, ePub, and PDF. Along with my 10 physical copies. And wrote it into the contract. If you write it into the contract, it's viewed as a trivial thing and they give it to you. If you wait, some jerk somewhere in the bureaucracy will want to say no.
(of course, I also have my original marked-up copies in Word format, but they will inevitably have some differences with the as-published work.) |
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Given that for quite a few older authors, ebooks were not something that was even considered when their contracts were signed, I can't blame them for not having 20-20 foresight -- 20-20 hindsight is so much easier.
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Wait 'til all these new authors who were raised on ebooks start getting burnt on the rights to the injectable, or cortical-implant versions of their works.
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Seriously? I have my book files backed up to a standalone disk, a local server, and have a third copy in the cloud. And the local server is separately backed up to the cloud AND a local backup disk. Are you kidding? This is my intellectual property, and there is NO F***ing way I'm not covering my posterior every which way but Sunday. I started writing books in 1990 or 1991, and I have every book file I've ever created. Now the fun part would be to come up with an application to READ those files these days. (First word processor was PCWrite, followed by Word Imperfect, and then when forced by circumstance and the publishers, Word.) The WP files could probably be read and mangled by Word, but recovery of the PCWrite files would be a good deal more annoying. The main files were ASCII text, but there were embedded control characters for some formatting features that would be a bit work to have to sort. |
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Important files should always be backed up, but it is easy to miss some I'm sure. I know I try to back up things (online in the cloud if nothing else) that I want to protect. An example is the Plot Embryo printable I mentioned in another thread. I saved it to One Drive among other places because you never know when your computer might scramble its hard drive. Also it cost me $20.00 to buy it (there was a sale) so I wanted to protect my investment. Once I bought a program that turned mp4 videos into the 3D (red and blue) versions. I didn't back it up right away and shortly thereafter my computer went down and I lost the only copy I had. Lesson learned.
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