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Pitching An Article To Creative Screenwriting Magazine --
Summary Of Writer Contract Terms:

The full writer contract terms, in legal language, can be found here.
This page is a summary for your guidance and is not the final agreement.

Summary:

1. Our writer agreement is a "work for hire" agreement under which we buy all rights but grant the writer certain uses.

2. Basic pay tiers for interviews is 15 cents/word for Q&As and for new writers we have not tried, 20 cents for non-Q&A articles by experienced writers, and negotiated higher pay per word for reporters who do a lot of digging and research. Pay for CS Weekly articles is 7 cents/word.

3. If you pitch an article to us, you have a perfect right to pitch it elsewhere at the same time. However, good etiquette means you should tell us right away if you and another publisher agree to have you write that article for that publication.

4. You agree to deliver the work by our first writer deadline for the issue unless we agree otherwise. There are late submission penalties.

5. We agree to pay within 30 days after we sent the magazine to the printer. This can be as late as six weeks after your deadline.

6. You warrant that you own the rights or have secured rights to the content of your submission.

7. The agreement is made under California law, and provides for mediation, then if necessary arbitration, in Los Angeles n case of dispute.

By clicking the link below, you agree that --

(A) Many people have similar ideas, and your briefly stated article idea, in and of itself, is not protected by copyright;

(B) We have the right to publish an article written by someone else on a subject similar to yours without being subject to any claim of misappropriation.

(C) You have read the full writer terms. This does not constitute agreeing to them. If we want your article or blog or column, we will ask you to affirm a contract later.

The "Click to Pitch" link will take you to a page at our surveymonkey.com account.