On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: >> > No , this do not happen, You write a book, most publisher just print >> > your name as author but copyright and license to distribute is with >> > publisher. this is must like a IT company where coder (labor) write >> > code and it goes into company account. >> >> Sorry, copyright vests with the original author. Pick up any book on >> your shelf and look at the copyright on the publishing page, it will >> invariably be with the author or the author's estate. >> >> Sorry , in most of the case copyright will not remain with author, > If copyright is with author then multiple publishers will be able to publish > it,
That happens because publishers do not understand / or are confused. Some of them require authors to sign 'copyright transfer forms', which actually restricts the right to publish/ distribute the same work in substantially similar form. But the vagueness in such agreements can be exploited in legal situations. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
