Selling your copyright

Copyright is a form of Intellectual Property, and like any form of property it can be bought, sold, transferred, inherited, and so on. If you do decide to sell or transfer your copyright there would need to be a written, signed contract stating a transfer has taken place. This is known as an assignment.

You should note that with certain copyright material even if the creator sells the copyright in the work they will still have moral rights. This means that for instance the creator will still have the right to be identified as the author (providing he had claimed that right previously) and to object to any derogatory treatment of the work.  Moral rights in a work can not be transferred or 'assigned' but a creator is entitled to waive those rights.