Author-Publisher
Agreement
Jim
Neal (1999)
Conventional
author-publisher agreements
traditionally have all rights,
including copyright transferred
to the publisher. Often an
irony arises where the faculty
author must obtain written
permission from her or his
publisher to make multi-copies
for classroom use, incorporate
their article in a new book,
etc.
My
advice has been to amend conventional
journal publishing agreements
by inserting the following
language:
"The
author transfers to __________
the exclusive rights comprised
in the copyright of the article,
except that the author retains
the following:
1.
All proprietary rights, other
than copyright, such as patent
rights.
2.
The right to make copies of
all or part of the work for
the author's use in classroom
teaching.
3.
The right to use, after publication,
all or part of this material
in a book by the author.
4.
The right to make copies of
the work for internal distribution
within the institution which
employs the author.
5.
The right to use figures and
tables from the work, and up
to 500 words of text, for any
purpose.
6.
The right to make oral presentation
of the material in any form.
As
to book publishing agreements,
publishers should be asked
to agree to 1, 5, and 6 above. |
