Foxboy Wrote:Effectively making it "work for hire," which I think is kind of a shitty rights-management thing anyway...My career (graphic design) tends to work as basically "work for hire", or at least, I treat it as such, if only because a lot of what I do is at the behest of someone else.. I've looked askance at photographers treating their work as otherwise. (You hire the model and do the shoot yourself? Sure, you have the copyrights. Hired to shoot a wedding? The copyright should be provided to the couple. Especially in today's era where you can scan and print your own copies.)Now, those imprints trying to effectively treat a writer's novel as such? No go there, certainly.
Quote:120 years of "copyright" that benefits nobody but the publisher.I can certainly agree with that. I personally think copyrights are too long, myself, but the debate over the particulars of THAT probably belong more in the Politics forum than here.
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