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Subject:Re: Janice Gelb Transcribes w/o Permission From:Don K Pierstorff <dkp -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 11 Aug 1995 06:42:36 GMT
In <4084n5$mns -at- engnews2 -dot- Eng -dot- Sun -dot- COM> janiceg -at- Eng -dot- Sun -dot- COM (Janice Gelb)
writes:
>In article <Pine -dot- SUN -dot- 3 -dot- 91 -dot- 950805163103 -dot- 1823A-100000 -at- kitfox>, David
Dvorkin <daved -at- kitfox -dot- kapre -dot- com> writes:
>>We write for a living. Some of us also write on our own time for a
>>second income.
>>
>>So what the hell is one of us doing transcribing an article without
>>permission?
>As far as I know, newspaper articles with no bylines do not get
>royalties for subsequent publication that is not for profit.
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>Janice Gelb
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Nothing in a newspaper is publishable elsewhere unless the
newspaper has given permission for such publication. I learned
that today by calling the _Orange County Register_ in Santa Ana,
California, and speaking to Bob Coles, the person in charge
of granting permission for such publication elsewhere.
