Topic: Rights
Started by: Jonathan Walton
Started on: 2/21/2005
Board: Push Editorial Board
On 2/21/2005 at 3:18pm, Jonathan Walton wrote:
Rights
Just thought I should make this explicit, since some people were asking:
PUSH is an indie publishing venture. You keep all rights to everything you submit. That means ALL RIGHTS. The artists also keep all rights to their work. After the journal comes out, you can post your work for free on your website or, likewise, do whatever else you want with it. It's YOURS. You made it.
What PUSH gets is limited rights to print your work as part of the journal, in whatever formats the journal ends up taking. What you get in return is compensation in whatever form we've worked out for that particular issue. PUSH is going to be selling your work, both as PDF and, hopefully, in print format. It's only fair that you get something. Whether that's free copies of PUSH or cash or pints of chocolate icecream or edible animals donated to Third World countries in your name... well that depends on what we've worked out before press time.
Just because you're getting compensated like a freelancer doesn't mean that PUSH is some domineering intellectual-property-controlling conglomerate like Disney or Marvel or White Wolf. You CAN have your cake and eat it too.
See, aren't we great? :)