(...) It's worse than I thought. In reading some submission guidelines I find that publishers expect exclusive rights, so having given that right to MOCpages I wouldn't even be able to publish things MOCpages or its successors never published. Amy (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
(...) There's a whole issue of law that's going to be messy to resolve. Part of the problem is that IP law has not yet caught up with the internet. The result is that lawyers are forced to try and craft terms that properly allow your material to be (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)
(...) I think "first North American serial rights" is the usual phrase. It still reserves the right to the author to publish it again later, but it should be previously unpublished. This is one reason I won't submit to Bricks Magazine: they don't (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
