We alway DO check with an author before putting material on the web site.
We're pretty careful, probably because I've had my share of being taken
advantage of.
I have to say, I'd be ticked to hear that JB was making money (even 10% off
articles I'd written for TAG or another hobby magazine. I do that for the
organization, not for someone's pocket.
On a similar subject, it worries me that people so lightly scan images from
books, or take them from otehr websites to post on the AGA forum. (a
practice that is SOP on APC, and has migrated over here) It's different with
the AGA contest photos posted on OUR forum... I think our release covers us
for that use. But for other photos, if someone challenged it, this is a
clear infringement of copyright.
Everyone does this so freely on APC (which really surprises me, considering
that Art is a lawyer and should know better) and I know I've always been
odd-man-out over there, so the last thing I wanted to do was make waves.
(besides, it was no skin off my teeth)
I haven't known quite what to do about it on our forum, though. I hate to
slow down traffic, or for us to be percieved as the spoil sports, but we do
have some exposure.
Karen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Electronic Re-publishing Article
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>
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