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Subject: Re: Contract vs. Commission

Author: P. Massie

Date: 23:55:03 05/03/02

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As a follow-up on the comments about books, I've written a couple of books.  In
each case I signed a document explicitly signing over all rights to the
publisher.  At that point the book now belongs to the publisher, but without
that I would still own the copyright.  If I wanted to regain the rights to the
the books I would be forced to negotiate with the publishers to buy them back.

On the other hand, if I am an employee of a company and writing something at
their specification it will typically belong to them.  To avoid the possibility
of confusion in this area, companies will almost always include a document the
employee must sign that explicitly assigns all rights to the company for any
work the person creates at their direction while an employee.

Paul



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