tailieunhanh - Writing for Publication part 7

Debbie Epstein, a South African, is a professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, She did her first degree in history and then worked briefly as a research assistant on the philosopher Jeremy Bentham's papers. | The Business of Publishing 51 ones staff give permission or are required to assign the economic copyright in their work to the institution or the research unit. It is important to understand that when you assign your economic copyright to a publisher it is no longer yours. This is a legal undertaking and you must take it seriously. For instance if you are asked for permission to reprint something you have written for instance to reproduce a journal article in a student reader the permission is not yours to give. You must ask your publisher and they may or may not give it. In the past publishers were always willing to give such permission for journal articles as long as the original source was acknowledged. However we know of instances where such permission has been refused because the publisher wants to sell papers from back copies of journals over the Internet Click here pay 15 and download . Publishers may be less obliging with regard to books as they have a longer shelf life. If publishers do consent they may charge the other publisher. If they do sell the rights to your work in this or any other way you will get some kind of payment as agreed in your original contract. Of course all this stuff to do with copyright applies to other people s work as much as to your own. This means that if you want to use excerpts diagrams photographs and so on from someone else s published work you must respect their economic copyright and moral right of attribution. With regard to economic copyright there are always circumstances in which you can reproduce limited amounts of someone else s work for the purposes of critique commentary and research. You must make yourself familiar with the rules in your own particular country. Authors societies There are a number of authors societies around the world that help authors get the benefit of payments made for the photocopying or lending of their work. There is usually a small fee payable for joining it but this is usually more than .