Royalties & author's rights
PublishingBoth the legal framework protecting the work and, by extension, the author's proportional remuneration on sales.
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Moral right: your name on the work, forever. Economic rights: what the contract licenses, frames and pays.
The expression covers two linked realities. Legally, author's rights (copyright) protect any original work from its creation, with no formality: in French law they include moral rights (attribution, integrity — perpetual and inalienable) and economic rights (reproduction, performance — licensable by contract, which is precisely what a publishing contract does). Economically, "royalties" name the author's proportional remuneration on sales.
Two practical consequences for the writer: no need to "register" a text to be protected (protection is born with creation, though proof of anteriority can help in a dispute); and a publishing contract is a rights license whose every line — scope, duration, territories, percentages per exploitation — should be read and negotiated.
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