Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 20:45:22 05/03/02
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This seems to be an issue of contracting a work vs. commissioning a work. In general, an author under contract to write "one or more books" without guidelines retains copyright on those books, while an author who is commissioned to write a specific book, with some guidelines, does not retain copyright. I'm sure this can be altered by the specific contract between the two parties. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to define "commissioned work" accurately. Textbooks and reference books are mostly commissioned works, most other books aren't. Is the Rebel book a commissioned work, or simply a contracted one? Maybe that's the important question here.
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