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Nope…the copyright _always_ belongs to the author, but what the author can sell to someone else (and that someone else can pass along) is limited portions of the specific rights granted via a copyright. For example, you can sell the "right" to publish via magazine and still retain all other rights such as right to publish electronicaly, or via hardcover or whatever. You can even sell full rights…but should the buyer not complete the terms of the contract…the rights you sold, will revert back to you. The "copyright" itself still remains with the author..even if the author sells full rights to publish or reproduce the program.