Re: Mecc titles

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In message   <19990927034459.22626.00003136@ng-fo1.aol.com>
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

> Not necessarily.  In the writing business, for example,
> or the photography business, publishers may buy
> exclusive rights to an individual's work.  If a magazine
> buys exclusive rights to an article, for example, the
> copyright holder (the author) is no longer free to sell
> the same article to another magazine.  Similarly, if a
> photographer sells a photo to a postcard company
> under an exclusive right agreement, the photographer
> can't sell the photo elsewhere.  In fact, under such
> agreements, the individual who made the article or
> photo can't even make thousands of copies of the
> work and distribute it for free since that's stealing the
> business from the publisher.  However, the author/
> photographer must still be acknowledged as the
> creator of the work.  Basically, you will always own
> your work, but if you enter into such an agreement,
> you can't do with it as you please.

I'm pretty sure what you're describing here is a contract
violation and not a copyright violation. Once you enter
into a contract for exclusive rights to publish you are
bound by contract law. Provided, of course, that you
didn't sell the copyright with the right to publish
exclusively, which would be a different matter entirely.

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Eric <chippys@nospam.earthlink.net>