- Detailed description of work
- Length
- Due date
- Fee
- Payment on acceptance, not publication
- Acceptance based on objective criteria
- Time for publication
- Kill fee
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Showing posts with label Amy Cook. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Amy Cook: What should be in Periodical Contract?
When writing an article for a newspaper, magazine or anything else along those lines, your contract should cover these key issues:
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Amy Cook: Defamation (Libel)
What constitutes defamation?
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- Injury to a person's reputation
- Only living people may sue for defamation
- Must prove that he/she is identifiable to reader by setting, physical description, etc.
- Changing names is not enough (Amy has lots of exclamation points behind this note)
- Truth is a defense to a defamation claim
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Amy Cook: Who Holds Copyrights?
Here are sites that will help you find out who holds the copyright to any particular book:
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Amy Cook: Stopping Others from Posting Your Material Without Permission
If you see your material somewhere you don't want and haven't granted permission, first send a cease and desist letter and be very specific about the material involved—"Please remove my article on whales from your website immediately."
If you are unsatisfied with the results or feel that the sharing without your permission hurt your future earnings on the work, you can bring about copyright infringement litigation.
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If you are unsatisfied with the results or feel that the sharing without your permission hurt your future earnings on the work, you can bring about copyright infringement litigation.
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Amy Cook: On Copyrights
Packed house for Amy (pictured right), a copyright lawyer based out of Chicago. Here are a few introductory nuggets of info:Work in a tangible format is copyrighted.
Things that cannot be copyrighted: Titles, names, short phrases, slogans, lists of ingredients, facts, ideas, procedures, methods, work that consists entirely of common knowledge (such as calendars, height/weight charts, info from public documents.
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