I think that ACA read the court better than the court read the law. Venue and medium are what selling copies (and thus copyright) is all about. Hard to make sense of what the court decided here, since it sounds like the NG didn't just release in a new format but actually reworked the material and released in a new format. You might call it an Axelrodic interpretation. sh --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote: > Hey, cool! Guess we did the right thing in how we > present the disk. > > Interestingly, the ACA was just offered a "service" by > John Benn to sell > PDFs of individual articles to people online, with John > getting 10% of the > cut. The ACA declined because in John redoing the > articles as standalone > PDFs, there were worries that this would be considered a > new work rather > than a straight reprint/back-issue, and they had not > given the authors > permission for publishing their work in this manner. > > Does make me think, though, that we need to get special > permission from an > author when we're going to put their article on the > website. But I'll bet > Cheryl's already thought of that! :) > > - Erik > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Larry Lampert wrote: > > > Here is an interesting article on a National > > Geographic lawsuit concerning electronic content > > republishing. Sounds familiar? > > > > Regards, > > Larry > > > > > > > > > <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051212/tc_nm/court_geographic_dc;_ylt=AkLwaCAAKnQa7vklJJ2o7alT.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl> > > _______________________________________________ > > AGA-mcm mailing list > > AGA-mcm@thekrib.com > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm > > > > -- > Erik Olson > erik at thekrib dot com > _______________________________________________ > AGA-mcm mailing list > AGA-mcm@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm > _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm