Coverage of rights reversion, licensing, and platform-account issues for authors and creators.
Rights & Licensing covers licensing deals (song lyrics, fan fiction), the license-vs-sale distinction in ebooks, platform account and rights termination, and the oversight (or lack of it) governing literary agents.
Whether your publisher can license your book for AI training turns on your grant clause, not on industry practice. Here's what the HarperCollins deal …
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Licensing a book is not the same as selling it. Here's how licensing agreements actually work for authors, what rights typically get carved out, and what to …
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When co-authors or writing partners fall out, who owns the shared fictional world, characters, and future books? How joint authorship law and collaboration …
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Audiobook rights are a distinct subsidiary right from print and ebook rights. Here's how audiobook licensing works, what royalty structures look like, and where …
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Understand Amazon KDP account termination rights, what platform terms of service really promise self-published authors, and how to reduce the risk.
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Ebooks are usually licensed, not sold. Here's how EU consumer law treats digital content, and what it means for readers and authors.
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Fan fiction copyright status, how licensed fan-fiction platforms work, and what independent creators should understand before publishing or monetizing it.
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How authors license song lyrics for a novel, why fair use rarely covers lyrics, typical fees, and safer alternatives like paraphrase or original songs.
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Literary agents face little formal regulation in the US. Here's how oversight actually works and what protections authors have.
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