Comments on: What you’re asked to give away http://everybodyslibraries.com/2009/05/08/what-youre-asked-to-give-away/ Libraries for everyone, by everyone, shared with everyone, about everything Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jrochkind http://everybodyslibraries.com/2009/05/08/what-youre-asked-to-give-away/#comment-1535 Sat, 09 May 2009 03:49:49 +0000 http://everybodyslibraries.com/?p=708#comment-1535 When I wrote an article for a popular industry magazine that is owned, I think, by Reed-Elsevier, I was given a contract wherein they’d own the copyright.

I nervously emailed, gee, I’d like to write the article, but I’m not happy with those terms, is it possible to negotiate them? Immediately they sent me the OTHER contract, the one they only send if you ask for it, where I kept the copyright and they got a 6 month exclusive license, that’s it.

I was planning on licensing it CC-BY after the six months were up anyway, so I didn’t pay attention to if I was giving them a non-exclusive perpetual license, since I planned to offer that to anyone who wanted it anyhow, that’s what CC-BY is, right?

But always ask for the other contract, is what I learned.

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