You need to know first that as soon as you put an idea into a fixed form, you own its copyright, whether it’s published or not unless the work was made for hire. Generally, in most countries with some exceptions copyright and any copyrighted material last for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years after he passed away.
The novel is some sort of creative work that might result from collaborative work, in this case, all the contributors will own the copyright. So what is novel copyright permission?
Copyright permission is a process of getting permission from the copyright owner to use the copyrighted material in whatever you have agreed to, Generally, the publisher is the copyright owner and has the authority to approve or refuse for reuse. This moves us to the next part, what is novel copyright infringement?
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