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I'm taking a short story class at uni right now, and although I've been writing since I was old enough to dictate, I don't usually do short stories. I am nervous as can be about permitting my class to read this, and I would love to have an objective opinion or two before I go under the knife. As it were.
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You can email me a copy through the forums, would you prefer my response within the forum or just by email?
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quote:You'll probably get more responses if you put it online where everyone can get to it.
DO NOT DO THIS!
Stick with the emails. Don't throw away the publication rights by posting it here. For heaven's sake.
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You can't claim FIRST publication, which is what most publisher's want. The story is yours to sell, just people are less likely to want it.
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I've always wondered about publication rights as viewed by publishing houses. AFAIK, most (all?) of them aren't set out by statute, so its just a question of the common law, case law, custom, and contract. It must be a confusing area.
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quote:It wouldn't do anything to publication rights, even if put on a website for all the world to see.
That's not true. You would still own the copyright, but some of the specific publication rights would have been used.
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quote:It wouldn't do anything to publication rights, even if put on a website for all the world to see.
That's not true. You would still own the copyright, but some of the specific publication rights would have been used.
Not necessarily. Putting it online temporarily on a low-traffic, unlinked, personal web site would not necessarily constitute a publishing event.
I'll concede though that if Jenny is planning to (or wants the option to) sell this story, then better safe than sorry. I hadn't considered that possibility and I was thinking more of copyright rights as enforced by law rather than publishing "rights" which are a matter of convention.
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quote:Not necessarily. Putting it online temporarily on a low-traffic, unlinked, personal web site would not necessarily constitute a publishing event.
And you'll concede, I'm sure, how that scenario is different from the one I was responding to.
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quote:Not necessarily. Putting it online temporarily on a low-traffic, unlinked, personal web site would not necessarily constitute a publishing event.
And you'll concede, I'm sure, how that scenario is different from the one I was responding to.
I don't think I had proposed anything specific enough to constitute a "scenario."
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Oy. I didn't exactly mean to get it published on CNN. Every public web site is "for all the world to see" but relatively few will be seen by any significant number of people. Most of us would have to go to some effort to get something published on anything BUT a "low-traffic, unlinked, personal web site."
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