Overview: InfoWorld Magazine: Simplicity

After blearily looking through reams of the MEGA contracts sent to Contract Monitor, it was refreshing to receive InfoWorld's brief 4 paragraph contract. The brevity of the contract almost makes us overlook the fact that InfoWorld requests the right to "publish same art in subsequent on-line and electronic versions of the same issue of InfoWorld, but not limited to, CD-ROM and other similar media." It's this need to repurpose the art in on-line and digital media, without compensation, that's the persisting thorn in Contract Monitor's side.

However, the contract goes on to allow negotiations for reprints on a case-by-case basis, gives artist first option to change artwork if needed, provides a fairly clear cancellation/kill clause, and provides for return of artwork within 30 days of publication.