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'Copyright for Book Publishers': A Practical Guide
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Format
| Bound: 60 pages (A4 format) + 7 page updating supplement
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Published
| October 2003 |
Supplement
| November 2005 |
ISBN
| 978-1-875833-98-6 |
| Product ID | B077v06 |
Description
| This practical guide covers when
a copyright clearance is needed, how to identify and find a copyright
owner, issues to consider when acquiring rights, territorial copyright (parallel importation), and contracts. |
| Contents |
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FAQs covered in this book
| - Another publisher has published a biography of a famous
Australian. Can we also publish a book about that person's life?
- Can copyright be renewed or revived once it has expired?
- Can we get any legal protection for the title of our book?
- Do we have the right to publish works in our catalogue in
CD-ROM format or on the Internet?
- Is permission required to reproduce lyrics from songs?
- Is there a percentage of a work, or a number of words, we
can reproduce without permission?
- Is there standard wording for a copyright notice?
- We commissioned a designer to design the layout of a book.
The designer chose the font, colour scheme and designed the page layout. We now
want to use the same layout and design for another book. Do we need the
designer's permission?
- We want to re-publish the work of a foreign author who died
less than 70 but more than 50 years ago. Can we do this without permission?
- What action can we take where copyright in our publication
has been infringed?
- What do we do if we cannot contact the copyright owner?
- What happens if a copyright owner is dead, has gone out of
business or does not reply to our letter?
- What if the copyright owner refuses to license or asks a
price we do not want to pay?
- What is the difference between assigning and licensing
copyright?
- What protection does a 'good faith notice' give us?
- What rates should we expect to pay for the use of another
publisher's material?
- Who is entitled to payments received from Copyright Agency
Limited – the publisher or the author?
- Who owns copyright in a collaborative work?
- Who owns copyright in an oral history?
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