Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 20:28:38 -0400
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Cc: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
 bsfsgeneral <bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Amazon "Kindle Worlds"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Normally a bad deal for the writer, yes, except this is fanfic and
normally the author can't copyright fanfic or make any money off it.  So
something is better than nothing.

On 5/22/2013 7:58 PM, mark wrote:
> Excerpt:
> Essentially, this means that all the work in the Kindle Worlds arena is a
> work for hire that Alloy (and whomever else signs on) can mine with
> impunity. This is a very good deal for Alloy, et al - they're getting
> story ideas! Free! — and less of a good deal for the actual writers
> themselves. I mean, the official media tie-in writers and script writers
> are doing work for hire, too, but they get advances and\or at least WGA
> minimum scale for their work.
>
> Another red flag:
>
> "Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including
> global publication rights, for the term of copyright."
>
> Which is to say, once Amazon has it, they have the right to do anything
> they want with it, including possibly using it in anthologies or selling
> it other languages, etc, without paying the author anything else for it,
> ever. Again, an excellent deal for Amazon; a less than excellent deal for
> the actual writer.
> --- end excerpt ---
>
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