#Legal help
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In a word…see a lawyer. Read your contract, it should have a "remedies"
clause that specifies what each party can do to the other party in case of
a default. The publisher can't sell the copyright, but he can sell the
right to publish the program to another company. Again, your contract
should specify what rights you may have to approve/disapprove this type of
transfer. What you can do (unless your contract is so non-specific that
there are no remedies clauses) is contact the new publisher, and inform
that publisher that since publisher A failed to live up to the contract,
that publisher A has lost all rights to publish the program…and thus
can't sell or assign those rights to publisher B and if publisher B wishes
to publish the program, he must either pay you all back royalites and
include an audit statement of sales from an independent accountant and/or
publisher B must sign a new contract with you or you will have publisher B
in court on a copyright violation.