Sentences with phrase «saying life of copyright»

You sign a contract saying life of copyright, that is what it is going to be, unless you are prepared to pay at least a commercial value and probably more.

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Now, a personal example: if a traditional publisher wanted one of my novels, even all rights for the life of the copyright, and wanted to pay me say $ 250,000.00 up front, I might be interested.

You can't say under German law, «I give the copyright to you,» but you can say, «I assign to you, for the rest of my life, the rights to do X, Y, Z, etc, and you agree not to sue me over moral rights.»

What I think you're saying is you've seen deals where the publisher is only acquiring rights to a work for a fixed term of years, rather than for life of the copyright (which is what most big publishers seek).

The Author Earnings petition, in fact, Howey says, is directed toward publishers, he says, «publishers who pay 25 % of net on e-book sales and want rights for life of copyright with laughable reversion clauses.»