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  by Caducean Whisks 2 years ago

  Kate, I know nothing of literary rights, but I have heard of such things in relation to film rights - in the old days, it was easy - a film was a film and shown in cinemas. It was distributed by a boy on a bike with a satchel. Now, a film is a video, is an advert, is on TV, on the net, is a DVD, bounced off satellite, is a whatevercomesnext, and the rights have to encompass all that - otherwise they need to contact every single extra in the film to gain permission to use a tiny extract in a documentary on, say, cars. These extras might be dead - which means locating the estate, and so forth. So film contracts nowadays DO mention the universe et al and try to cover all eventualities of future usage and distribution. I'm not surprised if it's happening in books.
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  by Kate.J 2 years ago

  Thnks Whisks, that does make sense. It's pre-empting development rather than lagging behind it like most legislation.