Timeline for Copyright - Can I go to any other publisher?
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| Dec 10, 2013 at 14:51 | comment | added | dmm | If you paid someone else to make a cover pic for your book, and that's what Partridge used for their version, then that pic still belongs to you, I would think. What you CAN'T do is take Partridge's completed Word or Publisher (or whatever) file to some other place. Partridge did not make that file for you as a "service for hire." They did it so they could sell their version of your book and make money off it. Therefore, anything you brought them is still yours, but what they made out it is theirs. Standard disclaimer: IANAL. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 8:49 | comment | added | Meera | Thanks a lot, your answer really put things in perspective. Yes I was offered copy editing services but declined as I had already got it done, so I sent them the word document and a cover design, they formatted it (font selection, placement of page number, chapter heading etc as per a form i had to fill up), they also re sized the cover pic to fit. So I guess I will not be able to use the same cover pic either and if i want to go with another publisher I have to use my original word file and get a new cover made. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 20:47 | history | answered | dmm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |