Publishing Contracts under the Copyright Law
A publishing contract combines several regimes at once, and this is exactly why it becomes disputed: the publisher's exclusive rights over collective and periodical publications (Article 14); the commissioning rules — who creates, who accepts and who pays (Article 43); the licence terms — what must be said in the contract (Article 40); and the form — written, with one exception (Article 42). This page explains all four blocks from both the publisher's and the author's perspective.