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essentialsaltes ([personal profile] essentialsaltes) wrote2005-02-02 09:14 pm
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I'm translated? Whoa

Estigma de Locura.
The author's always the last to know, especially if he no longer retains any rights for work-for-hire.

[identity profile] ladyeuthanasia.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)

You don't get any royalties? That sucks.

[identity profile] essentialsaltes.livejournal.com 2005-02-03 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Virtually all role-playing game stuff is work-for-hire, so that the company owns it all. Chaosium has actually been nice enough in the past to mail me a couple copies of product that has reused some of my work. Currently, Chaosium is not so much 'barely treading financial water' as it is 'lying in a financial dead man's float while unpaid artists and authors beat it with sticks, while IRS-sharks gnaw at its belly'. So I consider myself lucky that I got paid back in the day.