On 12/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The right to be credited as the author of the work is an important one that the OGL handles poorly but that work-for-hire negates altogether. One could write a guarantee that the author will be credited for the writing they do into a work-for-hire contract, but as a publisher I wouldn't feel comfortable offering such a guarantee since I might be held in breach if I release that work as OGC, allowing another publisher to reprint it with another author's name on the title page (relegating my author's name to a Section 15 mention alone).
I'm interested in the licensing possibility you raise; how would that work?
- Tavis
Is there a reason why a simple work-for-hire agreement wouldn't meet
all of the author's needs in this instance?
The right to be credited as the author of the work is an important one that the OGL handles poorly but that work-for-hire negates altogether. One could write a guarantee that the author will be credited for the writing they do into a work-for-hire contract, but as a publisher I wouldn't feel comfortable offering such a guarantee since I might be held in breach if I release that work as OGC, allowing another publisher to reprint it with another author's name on the title page (relegating my author's name to a Section 15 mention alone).
I'm interested in the licensing possibility you raise; how would that work?
- Tavis
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