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Topic: Legal Question: Rights to research
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| writesonwater | Posted – 11/24/2007 4:48:28 AM | show profile | email poster I'm working on a book, and I'd like to use excerpts from interviews for past articles. Some of them I only sold first rights to. However, two of the publications bought all rights to those articles. Not that they're doing anything else with them, but there you have it. My thinking is that I should be able to use excerpts of quotes gathered in the process of writing the articles, since that was my research. I would freshen them up by contacting the people to make sure it's okay for me to put them in my book. Anyone been in this situation or have any ideas for me? |
| stinking prague | Posted – 11/24/2007 1:26:51 PM | show profile I'd say what they bought was the articles in their entirties. not the component pieces, which you may very well have already used in articles previous to selling it to them. you are entitled to use the original elements, pieces of interviews, select paragraphs, anything but the article in its entire-ty I don't think buying the article would give them the right to parcel out pieces of it to somebody else for a different story. or certainly if they did, they couldn't claim any exclusivity to it over the original author just my guess. I'd like to hear other opinions |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 11/24/2007 3:00:29 PM | show profile You shouldn't have any trouble. |
| Metro Writer | Posted – 11/24/2007 10:55:16 PM | show profile Your research is yours to do with what you wish. You can tell the same history diffierent ways. Going forward, though, strike out any clause that demands your notes other than for you to keep them for a certain length of time in case a reader (could be organization) makes an issue of something you wrote. |
