Keep Your Copyrights, Says Authors Guild

Aug 13, 2015

In the fifth installment of its Fair Contract Initiative, the Authors Guild urges authors to not assign their copyrights to publishers. 

"Most trade publishers do not ask for an outright assignment of all exclusive rights under copyright; their contracts usually call for copyright to be in the author’s name," writes the Guild. "But it’s another story in the world of university presses. Most scholarly publishers routinely present their authors with the single most draconian, unfair clause we routinely encounter, taking all the exclusive rights to an author’s work as if the press itself authored the work."

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