Copyright has never been like a house or a car. The copyright owner typically only transfers some rights to publish. For example, with scholarly works, there are moral rights that always remain with the author, such as attribution.
The only right an author really needs to grant to a publisher is the right to publish. Rights to disseminate and even to republish can be held simutaneously by more than one entity. In other words, copyright is not exclusive. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library or Simon Fraser University Libary. Heather Morrison, MLIS The imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
