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Do ALL publishers now demand you sign away your rights to work for the copyright term i.e. 70 years after your death. I've come across this twice recently - one with a small regional publisher, but the second with one of the major publishers?
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Normal publishing contracts you are giving the publisher the right to produce your book for x amount of time, NOT surrender your copyright.
If it's a print book (not sure re e-books) there will also be a clause on reversion rights.
DO NOT TOUCH THOSE WHO DEMAND YOUR COPYRIGHT IN PERPETUITY.
I also had one publisher sneakily trying to assign the copyright to himself in the book:)