Coming in a little belated here, I believe this is one of the sections where First Time Novelist could get in trouble for posting 10 chapters of their novel on the net for anybody to look at long before they have agreed upon anything with any publisher. Another problematic section is the first North American serial rights section, where you swear you haven't published it anywhere else. Some people argue posting any of it on the net constitutes publication of those sections, and thereby advise people not to post so much as a paragraph of an unsold book. Some folks such as Harlan Ellison are passionately involved in the copyright suits involved with issues brought up by music file sharing. Others suggest posting it under a creative commons copyright, people such as Cory Doctorow. That story is here, if you scroll down to the link on his name. http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/writers#special Just wondered if y'all had any comments on this idea--I know I'm not up on all the news about it. Thanks, too, for posting all the contract information. It looks very much like what I was dealing with back in the 80's--except with even smaller numbers!!
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Date: 2004-10-15 10:02 pm (UTC)Another problematic section is the first North American serial rights section, where you swear you haven't published it anywhere else.
Some people argue posting any of it on the net constitutes publication of those sections, and thereby advise people not to post so much as a paragraph of an unsold book.
Some folks such as Harlan Ellison are passionately involved in the copyright suits involved with issues brought up by music file sharing.
Others suggest posting it under a creative commons copyright, people such as Cory Doctorow.
That story is here, if you scroll down to the link on his name.
http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/writers#special
Just wondered if y'all had any comments on this idea--I know I'm not up on all the news about it.
Thanks, too, for posting all the contract information. It looks very much like what I was dealing with back in the 80's--except with even smaller numbers!!