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What Authors Should Know About Their Rights When Serializing Their Content
Your intellectual property has value. Be sure you understand your rights.
The Next Web is covering Kindle Vella this week and has summarized something from one of my Medium articles written months ago:
“Writer Monica Leonelle has raised concerns about rights grabbing. She fears that Amazon will snap up intellectual property on the cheap, and then turn the content into successful films and TV series that won’t net authors fair remuneration.”
Just wanted to say that they did not contact me for a quote nor is what they stated quite what I meant or wrote originally. At the least, they have simplified and summarized my words for the purpose of their article—as is often their job to do. And that’s fine, of course, but I wanted to expand upon my original thoughts on this and explain the nuance of the points I was trying to make.
Two Related But Separate Points: The Serial Fiction App Business Model and Rights Grabs
In the original article, I was attempting to make two points: one about what the serial fiction app business model typically looks like, and another about what that new business model means for intellectual…
