No bestseller (unless they have a lawyer dumber than a post)
signs life of copyright contracts.
Not exact matches
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.
You
sign a modern traditional contract as a beginning writer or low - level midlist writer, you must trust the publisher, a large corporation, to watch out for your interests for the
life of your
copyright.
On a standard traditional publishing contract these days (in the States), you are
signing over the rights in the contract for «the
life of the
copyright.»
But I find it hard to stop the long list
of warnings that I would want them to be aware
of so they don't
sign their
copyrights away for the
life of their book, simply to get published.
Then, assuming you get find an agent and come to an agreement, you have just
signed away something in the area
of 15 %
of all your earnings, plus expenses, to someone and often for the
life of your work's
copyright.