TL;DR A ghostwriter owns the copyright by default, and you become the owner only when the writer signs a written transfer, because U.S. law (17 U.S.C. §204) says payment alone moves nothing. The stakes keep rising, since Bowker counted more than 3.5 million independently published U.S. titles in 2025, up 38.7% from 2024 (Publishers Weekly, […]
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