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Originally Posted by tooblue
Could we lock up a new catagory and get one of you lawer types to craft an agreement whereby our work could legally be protected so that we may, in a sense, publish
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Don't really need any lawyerly intervention to accomplish this (no offense to the lawyers, natch). You own the copyright whether you post it publicly or not. The problem is that if it's posted publicly, most markets will consider that Publication and, since they're only interested in buying first-time publishing rights, won't consider the piece. OTOH, if it's posted in a private forum for the purposes of "workshopping", no reasonable publisher's gonna have a problem with it.
o