Help! Need a quick-ish answer please!!?

scotgirl is sort of correct, however, it's not quite right.

First rights means first print (Ie no one has printed it before). Second rights means it has been printed before elsewhere. You should NEVER allow your stories to be copyrighted – or owned – by other people. If you sell a book to a publisher, you are selling them the rights to publish that book, but you are not giving them copyright.

That is a very, very important distinction, and one that the unscrupulous might exploit

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First rights means that you yourself own the copyright, or that it hasn't been copyrighted yet, and second rights means that a copyright is held by another party, from whom they will have to get copyright permission for publication.