D: Why Is This Happening To Me

D’: why is this happening to me

I cannot emphasize enough how much you need to read thoroughly through the terms of any publication before you send your writing to them. It is mandatory that you know and understand what rights you’re giving away when you’re trying to get published.

Just the other day I was emailed by a relatively new indie journal looking for writers. They made it very clear that they did not pay writers for their work, so I figured I’d probably be passing, but I took a look at their Copyright policy out of curiosity and it was a nightmare. They wanted “non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license and right to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and publish the Work on the internet and on or in any medium” (that’s copy and pasted btw) and that was the first of 10 sections on their Copyright agreement page. Yikes. That’s exactly the type of publishing nightmare you don’t want to be trapped in. 

Most journals will ask for “First North American Rights” or a variation on “First Rights” which operate under the assumption that all right revert back to you and they only have the right to be the first publishers of the work. That is what you need to be looking for because you do want to retain all the rights to your work. 

You want all rights to revert back to you upon publication in case you, say, want to publish it again in the future or use it for a bookmark or post it on your blog, or anything else you might want to do with the writing you worked hard on. Any time a publisher wants more than that, be very suspicious. Anyone who wants to own your work forever and be able to do whatever they want with it without your permission is not to be trusted. Anyone who wants all that and wants you to sign away your right to ever be paid for your work is running a scam.

Protect your writing. It’s not just your intellectual property, it’s also your baby. You worked hard on it. You need to do the extra research to protect yourself so that a scammer (or even a well meaning start up) doesn’t steal you work right from under you nose and make money off of it.

I think his laugh and the terrible mic quality make it funnier.

everyone loves to shit on david cage for making his games so heavily prompt based but let me tell you it’s the prompts specifically that elevate his work to the level of modern masterpieces

So I haven’t done an actual giveaway in a fair while so I thought it was about time that I start one up again.

Rules and Important info

I’ll be picking 3 winners, they will receive one portrait of their character.

You must reblog this post to participate (no giveaway blogs, please), you can reblog as you like so long as you don’t spam your followers with this post every 5 minutes.

You must be following me, new followers are always welcome.

I’ll be sending a message to each winner who will be chosen using a random generator. Please answer within 2 days or I’ll have to pick another winner.

The giveaway ends on May 14 at 5:00pm AEST! ( Australian Eastern Standard Time) This date is after my final assignment for the semester is due so I can start these asap.

Throughly enjoying other restaurants reacting to IHOb

Okay but this is kind of hilarious.

“Only cops should have guns! They’re the only ones competent enough to use them!”