Publishing Exam #2

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fair use

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an exception to copyright that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders, as in the case of parody, sampling, scholarship, etc.

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public domain

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Once the term of a copyright has expired, the formerly copyrighted work enters the public domain and may be freely used or exploited by anyone.

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option

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a part of a contract that guarantees that the publisher will have a chance to consider publishing a writer’s next manuscript. Similar to “right of first refusal.”

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belles lettres

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essays, published collections of speeches and letters, satirical and humorous writings, and other literary works that do not fall into other major categories (such as fiction, poetry or drama).

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four-color cover

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A book cover using multiple colors.

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work for hire

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Work created by an employee as part of his or her job, or a work created on behalf of a client where all parties agree in writing to the work for hire designation.
An exception to the general rule that the person who actually creates a work is the legally recognized author of that work

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vanity publishing

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book publishing in which the author pays to have his/her book published. Sometimes used as a pejorative term for self-publishing.
The main distinction is that “vanity presses earn their money not from sales of books to readers, as other publishers do, but from sales and services to the books' authors.