Question about legal issues regarding publishing rights
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Not really a problem. I was just wondering about an ownership and publishing rights regarding my stories. I was thinking about publishing a book consisting of stories I have already published here, on my blog. So, I was wondering are there any legal issues regarding publishing rights.
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If you published your own original content, then I don’t think there’d be any issues. Here’s a broad overview of WordPress’s legal policies: https://en.support.wordpress.com/disputes/legal-guidelines/
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you own your own writing – you grant WordPress.COM a license to display it on computers all around the world – WordPress.COM retains no legal rights to your writing the terms of service and such are a bit tough in places since they are written by lawyers for lawyers – publish your book – you will not have problems with WordPress.COM
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Granted that we own our own intellectual property but I’ll add something else here. If one publishes a substantial amount of material on a blog then a traditional publisher will not be inclined to publish it. It is common practice for journals and literary agents to reject previously published writing,
Read:
When is it OK to Blog Your Book?
http://annerallen.blogspot.ca/2013/04/when-is-it-ok-to-blog-your-book.html
What Is Considered Previously Published Writing?
http://www.writersrelief.com/blog/2010/04/what-is-considered-previously-published-writing/ -
Thank you all very much for such fast response and additional guidelines. It was very helpful. :)
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