(locusmag.com): How do successful writers use copyright? As negotiating leverage. Copyright becomes a productive club-with-a-nail-through-it with which to threaten publishers who might consider publishing a well-known writer’s work without their permission. Likewise, copyright is a useful tool for publishers to use in threatening each other, should one publisher take it into his head to copy a competitor’s copyrighted books and sell them. Because of this, a successful writer can even auction copyrights off between more than one publisher. But just because copyright can be used for leverage some of the time, by some people, it doesn’t follow that it will always provide leverage.
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