What are the rights and obligations of the publisher
The rights and obligations of the publisher There are the following points:
According to the publishing contract signed with the author, you have the right to obtain the manuscript from the copyright holder at the agreed time.
Book publishers, in accordance with the license contract, enjoy the right to publish the works delivered for publication by the copyright owner within the agreed period and region, in the agreed language and version format. rights or exclusive publishing rights. Strictly speaking, the right to publish books or the exclusive right to publish books is within the scope of copyright rather than related rights. It is part of copyright property rights, but it is only exercised by the publisher with permission from the copyright holder.
During the validity period of the contract, according to the degree of social demand, The publisher may decide to republish or reprint. Such republishing and reprinting do not require the consent of the original author, but the original author must be notified, asked whether to modify the work, and paid remuneration. The original author enjoys the right to modify. On the contrary, when the book is out of stock, if the author requests republication or reprinting and the publisher refuses, the author has the right to terminate the contract.
Publishers have the exclusive right to use the layout designs of the books and journals they publish. The so-called layout design mainly refers to the layout method of text works, such as fonts, line spacing, etc. Although the layout design has nothing to do with the specific content of the work, its quality affects the dissemination of the work, which is in line with the spirit of neighboring rights protecting the rights of the disseminator, and therefore must be protected. The revised Copyright Law deletes the provisions regarding the publisher’s binding design rights. However, if the binding design meets the requirements of the work, it can obtain copyright protection.
Book publishers can modify or abridge works with the permission of the author, while newspapers and periodicals can make textual modifications or abridgements to works without the permission of the original author. Agree, but modifications to the content of the work require the consent of the author.
Publisher publishes books,The magazine should pay remuneration to the author. For the publication of works resulting from the adaptation, translation, annotation, arrangement, and compilation of existing works, the magazine should obtain the consent of the adapter and other copyright holders and the original copyright holder, and pay remuneration separately. When the author and adapter are one and the same (that is, adapting his own work), the publisher shall pay double remuneration.
For the copyright owner to bear the publishing costs, the above provisions do not apply, and both parties can enter into a contract themselves and perform according to the contract.
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