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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Collecting Net Articles into a Book
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 08:18:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 08:18:42 1984
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
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As a matter of morality/convenience, whether or not the net is public and
stuff that appears on it is therefore non-copyrighted,...get author's
permission for each item.  (Shouldn't be all that hard to write a program
to send each author a copy of the message (in this case a recipe) along
with a standard message asking permission to 1) publish, 2) use name
instead of crediting it to anonymous, 3) use net address, 4) send free copy
of work or some other payment.

I am currently editing an anthology from my magazine.  Most of the stuff
published was not specifically copyrighted.  The magazine was offered
publicly for sale.  Nonetheless, I got signed/verbal permission from all
people whose material was used - AND got them to sign a contract with me.
(And sent a copy of the contract to the publisher, when I returned my
copies of his contract to him.)

In the present lawsuit-happy culture, anyone who doesn't try to minimize
possible lawsuits (even frivolous ones) is silly.  And besdides, moral
behavior may be a little more work but leaves everyone involved feeling
better.

--Lee Gold
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	Barry Gold
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