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Article: The Authors Guild Issues Warning About iPublish Contract.(Brief Article)
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- Information Today
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- July 1, 2001
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The Authors Guild has issued a warning to its members that experimenting in digital publishing with Time Warner's new iPublish division (see page 41 of the June 2001 issue or http://www.infotoday.com/it/jun0l/news11.htm) presents substantial legal risks and the loss of literary rights for little pay. The guild has urged all writers to approach iPublish with extreme caution.
According to the press release, established writers who are merely dabbling in a new medium may find they've inadvertently granted a laundry list of rights to Time Warner and agreed to a bargain-basement advance for print rights to their work. Worse yet, writers surrender rights to their next ...