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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: Re: Copyrights and related issues (Marie)
Saturday, 3 June 2006, at 1:21 p.m.
Your rights and copyrights are covered, and you do have the ability to sell the "Master rights" or whatever for whatever you can get for it.
> Good to know... I figured I could just "close up shop", so to
> speak, but seemed foolish to do so without extracting any more money from
> it, so that's why I figured it would be good to sell it (site/ebook.)
Not a bad idea, really.
> So. Let's say I decided to sell the site and ebook. What kind of rights do
> you think the buyer would expect? Master Resale Rights?
Let's look at another issue here -- crafting a sale agreement. You really really really want to retain your copyright and sell only partial rights. If you sell everything, then the person who buys it could take your work, modify it a bit, and sell it to a publisher, turn it into a book, turn it into a series of radio programs (and this has been done, I should add.) So you need to carefully delineate what "Master Resale Rights" are.
> Is there any kind
> of research to show, for example, if people pay more for Master Resale
> Rights or Private Label Rights? I suppose to a certain extent it depends
> how exclusive you are - if I just sell ONE PERSON those rights it's more
> valuable than if I offer multiple people those rights - and would I need
> to edit out any affiliate links from the ebook, or sell it as is?
I'll let others hop in here, since I don't believe there's been much research done on this. I would say that the name of the book's writer or the fame of the title itself has more of an impact on the price than the actual content of the book.
The issue of affiliate links is definately one to consider. You probably should knock out the affiliate links, since at some time in the future they may become nonfunctional and this may cause your ebook to have problems.
I hope folks who have bought and sold "master rights" will step in here and add their knowledge to the thread.
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