Clause 06

This clause’s language is generous to authors; it is creator-friendly.

CLAUSE TEXT:

The [publisher] shall at all times have the rights to print, distribute, sell and use the Article, or any portion thereof, in all manners customary in law review administration, including but not limited to the following: as individual reprints; as part of the Issue; as part of bound volumes including the Issue; as part of collections of essays that may have appeared in different volumes of the [journal] and that are produced by the [publisher] in its name; and as microform or electronic reproductions of any of the foregoing.

EXPLANATION:

This is a contract for publication of an article in a scholarly journal (law review). It allows the publisher to reproduce the work as it appeared in the journal in a variety of ways, forever. The right, however, is non exclusive, which means that the author can freely republish the article (or parts or new versions of it). The first publisher may issue or reissue the article in a variety of formats and media, but cannot change the article from the way it appeared in the original journal issue publication.