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Re: Buying rights to a short story
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Lang Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 22:22:57 -0400
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You would buy the rights from whoever owns the copyright to the story
(which for magazine sf and fantasy often isn't the author).  That person or
company controls all derivative works from the original story.
Lang Thompson
http://members.aol.com/wlt4/index.htm
 
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