A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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February 27, 2005Young Writers SoughtCollege Tree Publishing is seeking essay submissions from people in the 17 to 25 year old age group on political and social issues, as a followup to
More information here. Sounds like a good opportunity for our young contributors. Posted by rickheller at February 27, 2005 02:15 PM Comments
As long as the submitters don't think it's a paying opportunity. All submissions, correspondence, and memoranda, and all ideas, concepts, and proposals contained therein and delivered to College Tree Publishing by sender shall belong to and shall be the property of College Tree Publishing. Sender relinquishes all right to compensation therefore, and agrees that all such materials may be used for any purpose by College Tree Publishing and within the sole and absolute discretion of College Tree Publishing, its officers, employees and assigns. Selected authors will be given proper attribution in the book. Don't send anything you might want to use for anything later. Once you send it, you no longer own it, even if they never publish it. Actually, a number of articles, essays, prose and poems have appeared in other areas. CTP simply reserves the right to make small changes (like spelling) before sending it to print, and because the company is a small start up company run by debt ridden college students, CTP doesn't have to pay to print writer's works. If you pick up a copy of the first "What We Think: Young Voters Speak Out" you'll notice that all authors were given full credit for their work, including a listing of where else the piece has appeared (news papers, magazines, etc), and a short bio in the back on the student. CTP is covering themselves from lawsuits, they hardly have the resources or will to use that section to oppress the rights of individual authors. Posted by: Seth at February 27, 2005 03:06 PMSeth, I certainly won't argue the intricacies of copyright law, and agree entirely that unpaid, unsolicited op/ed essay submissions should be by "full rights transfer" on submission only. (BTW, folks, that is indeed standard media practice for unsolicited op/ed pieces--CTP is NOT doing anything unusual other than asking for more substantial and higher-quality material.) But that you routinely allow reversion and re-use doesn't mean you're obligated to, and submitters need to understand that when they submit a piece they're legally relinquishing all rights to it, forever, whether you publish the piece or not. Your good intentions and current kind practice aren't a legal obligation. You wouldn't be "oppressing the rights of the individual authors" because you already own the rights to the pieces. The authors need to understand that. I applaud the CTP concept, and wish College Tree much luck. I can understand the cover-all-bases motivation. I'm really glad to see y'all post those terms right out front, not deeply buried in a follow-up contract. I'm not questioning the motivation, I'm noting the reality. Posted by: Tully at February 27, 2005 04:15 PMJust a quick note Tully. Thank you for your kind words about the project -- As one of the editors and co-founders of CTP, I want you and anyone else concerned with the "submission agreement" to know that, as Seth said, we cannot foresee a situation that would compel us to limit the republication of any contributed works nor have we done so yet -- Nevertheless you are absolutely right, regardless of intention or motive the agreement does read as though it is legally binding. If someone, say you for example, is interested in submitting a written work but worried that you will not be allowed to publish it later or elsewhere, or you don't want to give up the rights to it, Send us an email saying as much -- Just mention that we do have the right to use it for publication if we wish. We can work with something like that -- We are completely willing to, on an individual level, negotiate the contract. We really don't want it to be of material importance when someone is considering whether to submit. Thanks again for your legitimate concern! Posted by: Rob Grabow at February 27, 2005 07:28 PMRob & Seth, I'm trying to get a friend in copyright law interested enough to come up with a model submission contract (pro bono!) that would suit your needs and still CYA. If she agrees, I'll let you know and pass it on. Posted by: Tully at March 1, 2005 12:19 PMTully, Thank you. That would be great. Email Seth or me if you need any additional information from us. We really appreciate your help! Posted by: Rob Grabow at March 3, 2005 05:49 PMmortgage car loans A debt consolidation loan can save you money Debt Consolidation Loans Posted by: Debt consolidation loans at March 14, 2005 02:27 AM |
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