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Re: What's the definition of a published author

Subject: Re: What's the definition of a published author
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:38:24 -0500


Copyright precedes publication. It is the right to control who can make and sell copies. If you are the heir, say, to Richard Rodgers's works, you get to decide whether or not the Sheboygan Junior High School Drama Club can perform Oklahoma! If you like, you can prevent anyone from performing Oklahoma! Or you can let everyone perform it for free. Or you can run off copies of the score on a mimeograph and hand them out on a street corner. Or you can pay Vantage Press to print and distribute copies of the work. Or you can sell the nonexclusive performance rights to a Broadway producer for $10,000 per performance. You can do any of those things.

And you have the same choices if you write the Great American Novel. But you're not a published author unless a publisher pays _you_ for the work.



Downing, David wrote:

Is that true in the strictly legal sense, though -- i.e., for copyright purposes?
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From: Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- alltel -dot- net] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: What's the definition of a published author


No. Published means that someone has accepted and printed an article or a book that you submitted, either on speculation or on request. If your book were published by Vantage or some other subsidy publisher, then YOU might say you were a published author, but nobody else would.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:16:45 -0800, Wade Courtney <courtney -at- hsq -dot- com> wrote:





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