This chapter is written from the point of view of the learned society publisher. The section on contracts sets out the sort of clauses that need to be covered in different types of contracts with editors, authors or contributors. One definition can usefully be given here. Rights acquired by the publisher are upstream rights.
Rights granted by the publisher are downstream rights.
In Appendix 1 to the Guidelines there are recommendations to the scientific author concerning the same issues which are more or less the same. Contracts between a learned society and a publishing partner are considered in chapter 9. This section concentrates on the principles behind contractual arrangements and gives specifics where models are not easily available in handbooks. In scholarly publishing the author is not usually an employee of the publisher and in what follows this normal situation is assumed. In any case, it is crucial that the relationship between publisher and author is formalised by a contract, however short.