RE: Sacred Symphony - Poem & Poetry Reading
The Heron's Nest requires first publication rights, including first electronic rights, for work accepted.
Poems that have been previously published in print or on the Internet, including publication on personal web sites or blogs, public video and/or photo sites, and public forums, are not eligible for submission to our journal.
This is from www.theheronsnest.com and I'm afraid that most literary journals have the same type of legal disclaimer. The key terminology to look at is 'blog'. Steemit is most definetly a blogging platform and beyond that, one where you can make money (financial reward). As far as indemnifying themselves, regardless of the fact that the rewards here are based on shared stake/investment, they won't accept works as they don't seem to understand that there is no centralized entity which may try to take legal action against them over those first publishing rights.
It is important to undestand that you are giving up first pub rights on here, unless say you have a novel (or collection) accepted by a large publishing house who can afford to take the time to properly investigate the legalities of these things. Journals/magazines etc will not spend the money to get specific advice around the legalities of cryptocurrency. As far as their concerned it's a blogging platform where you gain some type of remuneration for your writing and if they are stating in their legal disclaimer no previously published work including first electronic rights, then you will not even be considered when there team do their internet checks for reposting. This has been my experience anyway.
Thank you for positing this. Been a long time since I checked out Herons Nest. I'm surprised they're imposing such limits. The key word is 'publish'. To define a creative work that you've posted on social media as being truly Published, when the creative process can involve pre-publication stages like online workshopping and raising fan awareness by showing early forms of work ...
And who is to say what is a 'rough working draft' for the purposes of peer review, and what is a final published work? Surely the author?
Anyway cheers again.
Honestly, I think it might be ok if you take a poem or short story that you've published on steemit and re-worked it or edited to a point where it constitutes a markedly different version or even a whole new story/narrative. But if you take something that is posted here, unchanged or with only small changes, then it's just going to be thrown away at the checking stage. I'm speaking from experience as I queried two separate sources for mainstream publication over submissions of material put on steemit. Both said it wasn't suitable due to first publishing rights.
Thanks for your comments @wildcosmos and the interesting conversation :-)
Thanks, yes I don't doubt what you say. It does slightly depress me whenever I hear of these kinds of concerns being imposed on the artist's creative process. Reminds me why I drifted away from traditional publishing over time in search of something more ... open. Why I've been moving towards blockchain publishing @wildcosmos in the hope that we can all create a fresh new publishing space where open sharing and creative solutions are more the norm. Cheers!