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Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :

In the submissions guide in IGMS:

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With this payment we buy exclusive rights in any language or any medium throughout the world for one year from date of first publication in the magazine, and nonexclusive electronic and/or online rights in any language in perpetuity. We also buy nonexclusive print and audio rights throughout the world and in all languages for inclusion in multi-author anthologies based on the magazine, for which you will receive a pro rata share of the authors' share of advances and royalties, to be reported and paid when reports and payments are received by us from the publisher (or, if we are the publisher, every six months after one year after publication, if there are any earnings to report).

Would any one else really be likely to want the story after a year in IGMS. What value does having ones copyright on a story back really give the writer? This might be a straightforward answer tot he rest of you, but I've researched and can't find any reasoning behind this. Thank you for your time.

Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :

Umm . . . Scott sells previously published stories to anthologies all the time. Usually after they have been published in their original publication for a year.

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

It's actually very ordinary. I know that *I* want rights to revert to me after a while, so I can anthologize.

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

The rights-return-to-you is the end of exclusivity. For an online publication, we have to set a term. But you can NEVER have "first rights" back again because, obviously, only one publication can be "first." So all you ever get back are second rights - from ANYBODY. No matter who publishes a story first, that's all they ever leave you with ...

Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :

This is a good night for me. I found this old thread so I could express my excitement for the next issue of IGMS, coming in six days from what I've heard. And in the process I found this answer to my own question by OSC that I'd missed until now for some reason. [Big Grin]

*Expresses excitement for the next issue of IGMS, coming in six days from what I've heard*