Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Georgia

copyright...manuscript ownership?

I plan to submit a manuscript to a fiction contest operated by a very prominent publication. In their rules it states that ''All manuscripts become the property of ____ and will not be returned.'' Does this mean by submitting I lose my rights of ownership to my written work even if I don't win the contest? I'm concerned that if I submit and don't win that I will be unable to submit the same work to other publications in the future.


Asked on 1/17/08, 12:20 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Glenn M. Lyon, Esq. MacGREGOR LYON, LLC, Business Attorneys

Re: copyright...manuscript ownership?

Possibly. They may simply mean that the actual copy of the manuscript is theirs so they don't have to return it. However, you should have a local attorney review the entire agreement before submitting anything.

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Answered on 1/18/08, 7:58 am


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