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Registering and Protecting your Copyrighted Works: Your Relationship with your Publisher

The relationship between an author and a publisher is contractual. Whether or not you have transferred your copyright to the publisher is governed by the language of the contract you signed with your publisher.

Books

The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know by Stephen Fishman
Available from the Law Library's website at https://lawlibrary.franklincountyohio.gov, click on the Self-Help Legal Resources link.
Nimmer on Copyright by Melville Nimmer
Call Number: KF 2991.5 .N55
Also available from the Library's website, for Central Ohio attorneys with a Franklin County Law Library Card.

Form Books

Form books can be helpful in drafting agreements:

American Jurisprudence Legal Forms , 2d
Call Number: KF 170 .A542
Commercial Agreements: A Lawyer's Guide to Drafting and Negotiating by Peter Siviglia
Call Number: KF 889 .S452
Current Legal Forms with Tax Analysis by Jacob Rabkin and Mark Johnson
Call Number: KF 170 .R3
West's Legal Forms
Call Number: KF 170 .M63

Links

Copyright Guidance: Copyright for Authors & Creators
Yale University Library LibGuide.
COVID-19 and Libraries: E-Books and Intellectual Property Issues
Congressional Research Service Report, 4/28/20
MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts yields new open-access model The MIT Libraries and three universities negotiate innovative agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery.
MIT Libraries 2/24/20
A New Kind of ‘Big Deal’ for Elsevier Carnegie Mellon University has signed an open-access deal with Elsevier -- the first of its kind for the publisher in the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed 11/22/19 It’s also notable that the university negotiated that its authors would retain rights to their work through the agreement.
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One
The Scholarly Kitchen 2/18/21
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two
The Scholarly Kitchen 2/19/21

Rethinking the Scholarly Publishing Lifecycle
AALL Spectrum article May/June 2020

Self-Plagiarism, Fraud and iThenticate: A Complicated Relationship For authors seeking guidance on how to reuse their previously published material appropriately, resources are limited -- and problematic, argue Cary Moskovitz and Aaron Colton.
Inside HIgher Ed 3/5/21
What Are the Copyright Implications of the New White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Public-Access Guidance?
Association of Research Libraries 12/8/22