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Old 2008-08-01, 6:33am
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Originally Posted by Tink View Post
Another thing for writers of tutorials to keep in mind is that once they've published their tut, they have effectively used up their first North American rights. And that's what book publishers are typically buying when they agree to publish your book. And they are getting more and more picky about what constitutes usage and loss of those rights.

So if you ever hope to publish your techniques via the mainstream press, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. I've been asked literally hundreds of times to write a vessels tutorial. I can't, because of the first North American rights issue.
Tink, is this true as well if you have a tut published in a magazine - have you given up your rights to that subject?
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