On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609@yahoo.com> wrote:

The author, J Devika has released her work under a copyleft license and yet talks of considering granting a publisher (Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad) the right to publish her work. Does not the copyleft license grant any publisher the freedom to publish her work as long as the publisher licenses it under a similar copyleft license and attributes the work as being hers? Does the publisher have to seek her permission before publishing this work?

Devika Licensed her book under CC-A-SA 2.5 India license .

Licensing is a act of assigning some rights (Here Attribution and Share Alike Usage) as already granted

For a publisher there are multiple options to publish a Free licensed book

1. Publisher follows the license and print the book without asking the author because rights are already granted.(CC-aware publisher)

2. Publisher can talk with copyright holder as in normal publisher -author talks and author can ask them to use the license terms (Author enforcing CC)

3. Publisher can talk with copyright holder as in normal publisher-author talks and the same book can be published under traditional copyright with author (Licensing is a act of freeing a copy/digital copy . Copyright owner have the freedom to give it under different licenses)

I think here the case is 2 .

And for the book , The print edition is a layout designed copy and the publisher may be reusing it . Wiki only have text and pictures . But no layouts. So if someone need to bring out a new edition of the book as it is they need to get the initial source or restart all the work from scratch .

All these traditional publishing needs author -publisher discussions.

And there is not much publihsers now for Free licensed book. Thats why she is thanking the publishers especially in the end.