{"id":493,"date":"2011-02-17T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2011\/02\/17\/what-does-change-in-copyright-law-mean-for-writers\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:08:00","slug":"what-does-change-in-copyright-law-mean-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2011\/02\/17\/what-does-change-in-copyright-law-mean-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Change in Copyright Law Mean for Writers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I caught this item of news from Piers Anthongy:<\/span><br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>Meanwhile, of interest to other writers: Congress changed the law, and now publishers can&#8217;t hang on to an author&#8217;s rights until 70 years after s\/he dies. The new Copyright Act allows authors and their heirs to terminate contracts 35 years after the contract date and &#8220;recapture&#8221; the books, regardless whether they remain in print, beginning with contracts dated 1978. All my books are on license, meaning I can get my rights back after about ten years, except for 17 at Random House\/Del Rey. Now, year by year, I can start recovering them. Other writers should check this out, because their publishers will not tell them.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/><span><span>There&#8217;s a gold rush going on right now for the e-rights to millions of backlisted titles by previously published authors. A lot of these are older folks who aren&#8217;t comfortable with the new tech and may surrender their rights without realizing it. If you fall in this category, or you are related to a writer who does, you should tread with care. Or sell your rights to me. \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this item of news from Piers Anthongy: Meanwhile, of interest to other writers: Congress changed the law, and now publishers can&#8217;t hang on to an author&#8217;s rights until 70 years after s\/he dies. The new Copyright Act allows authors and their heirs to terminate contracts 35 years after the contract date and &#8220;recapture&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}