Students do not have
to give up ownership or copyrights of any kind in order to participate
and be published in a Word Ventures book.
Students automatically own the copyrights
to their work simply by having written or created it, and they do not
have to give up those rights to either a sponsor or Word Ventures in
order to be included in a given book.
A parents or adult student does need to give
permission to use the student's
work in the book, but this in no way gives
the sponsor or Word Ventures any ownership of the work itself.
The final published book that contains all
of the students' work will be copyrighted to the book's sponsor—the
school, library, or other organization that is sponsoring the book
publishing project. This copyright only
pertains to the entire compiled book as a whole. Each individual work
contributed by each student remains owned by that student.
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