Negotiating Author Payments in the Digital Age
Author contracts no longer conform to a standard as alternative forms of publishing create new models of compensation.
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It is the recognition of these risks, Kirsch says, that have led to a tightening up of contract provisions for electronic and other rights in recent years. His standard contract used to have an electronic rights clause that could be used two ways—a default clause that gave broad, sweeping electronic rights to the publisher, and a “fallback clause” in case the author balked at these terms, limiting the publisher’s rights to a “static display of text” that excluded repurposing of content for multimedia presentations.
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