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Be Careful with All-Rights Contracts!

All-rights contracts have become more and more common over the past several years. If you're asked to give up all rights, contact a contract adviser at advice@nwu.org for a thoughtful review.

A variation of this theme is now followed by several major newspapers. In order to write for them as a freelancer, you have to give up all rights to everything you have ever written for that paper.

If you're offered a burdensome contract, always try to negotiate. Call your contract adviser for help. Just because a contract clause is in print doesn't mean you have to accept it. And be sure, if you feel you must sign an all-rights contract, that you're adequately compensated! Every additional right - reprint, online, TV, anthology, etc. - is worth money to you. If a publisher wants those rights, it should have to pay for them.