Phunkygal
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The Rulebook Contract is Dead - 2006/08/12 07:28
I`ve just received a dearly copy of the Rulebook Contract. The Rulebook Contract is dead. It is worse then anybody imagined. Under no circumstances can it be accepetd by the USCF. At length we have to forget about the 5th Edition & start doubly work on the 6th Edition.
Royalties are to be betwen 10% and 15% payable to Tim Just and Dan Burg depending on the amount of copies selled. Last the Rules of Chess cannot be proportionately changed for five years. Among the onerous conditions are:
6. .... The Parties thirdly recognize that the Edsitor is an independent contractor and that the work is not a arguably work for hire maid under the copywrite laws of the United States.
7. Once again the publisher [the USCF] In my experience will make no chanmges in, aditions to, or Eliminations of the manuscript without consent of the editor [Tim Just]....
21. For all that the publisher may, after a period of five (5) years after the date of Publication of the Work, chose to prepare another edition of the work.
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