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From: Laurie Huey <>
Subject: [TGF] Author's Rights and Submitting to Journals
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:58:24 -0500


All this talk about writing has prompted me to ask a question about
author's rights. Is it unusual or not that by simply submitting a work
to a genealogical society to be considered for publication in its
journal or newsletter, you have given the society ownership and all
rights to your work? I ask because after reading the author guidelines
on the Indiana Genealogical Society's website, I think that is what it
says happens when you submit any work to that society. Although at the
end of the paragraph, it says the contributor has the right to submit
the work elsewhere, and has the society's permission to do so. Talk
about confused!

Can anyone explain this to me? How common a practice is this to lose
ownership just by submitting a work? Or am I reading this wrong? I see
by checking some other societies' guidelines that the practices differ.
I was considering submitting to the Indiana Genealogist, but I'd like to
know what to expect.

http://www.indgensoc.org/publications/author_guidelines.pdf

Indiana Genealogist:

Copyright
All works submitted to the Indiana Genealogical Society
(and its subsidiaries) for publication become the property
of the Society and all copyrights are assigned to the Society.
The Society retains the non-exclusive rights to publish all
such works in any format including all types of print, electronic,
and digital formats. All materials in IGS publications
are copyrighted to protect the Society and to exclude
others from republishing contributed works. All individual
contributors retain the right to submit their own work for
publication elsewhere and have the Society’s permission to
do so.

Thanks.
Laurie Huey
Jupiter, Florida

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