Re: Linda's situation

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Linda's situation
• From: F*@aol.com
• Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:56:44 EST
• List-archive: <http://topica.com/lists/Gardenwriters/read>

At least two contributors to this thread have made statements to the effect 
that newspapers rarely require contracts.  My experience has been otherwise. 
I contribute regularly (on non-garden-related subjects) to two local papers 
in Lancaster, PA, and both have recently (post-Tasini) drafted contracts with 
terms that raised my eyebrows sufficiently to require negotiating -- with 50% 
success.
I got the heinous "work for hire" phrase stricken from one contract, but it 
keeps reappearing on every expense form they send me.  I just cross that part 
out and send it in, figuring that if there's a dispute the contract will 
prevail.
In the case of the other paper, the all-rights-everywhere-forever wording 
remained intact, and I didn't fight it very hard because I rarely send them 
anything that has a market elsewhere.  
But I regret having done so, because now that contract is a barrier to my 
approaching them with stories that would fit well in at least one of their 
three publications.  
I have to wonder if publishers who insist on ALL rights, ALL the time, and 
have succeeded in getting some writers to acquiesce sometimes, realize what 
they've lost in the process -- i.e., that they've voluntarily relegated 
themselves to second or third choice of venues.
JF

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