"Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright."
Given that the fanfic writers have no rights to these worlds in the first place, this probably sounds fine, but this is DEFINITELY not industry standard unless you are specifically writing a work for hire, which I guess is how they are framing this.
Mind you, you can still have rights tied up by, not at all at random, Bank of America thanks to some general screwups on the part of a lot of people (including me) but that doesn't make that standard.
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Date: 2013-05-22 03:16 pm (UTC)"Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright."
Given that the fanfic writers have no rights to these worlds in the first place, this probably sounds fine, but this is DEFINITELY not industry standard unless you are specifically writing a work for hire, which I guess is how they are framing this.
Mind you, you can still have rights tied up by, not at all at random, Bank of America thanks to some general screwups on the part of a lot of people (including me) but that doesn't make that standard.