tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post3493281156265324449..comments2024-03-28T10:16:38.716-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Mixed Feelings, Copyright EditionLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-13899737423613705172017-03-05T13:11:37.233-05:002017-03-05T13:11:37.233-05:00I haven't faced this problem--yet--largely bec...I haven't faced this problem--yet--largely because I don't post short stories (only once). But I think you're right to ask the librarian or anyone else to take down the unauthorized page if nothing more than as a learning experience for everyone concerned. This is your property and you have a right to control it. But even after the page is taken down, it's still in the archives somewhere. As one of the other readers indicated, this is a losing battle, but I still think we have to fight it. I just blogged on this topic a few days ago also.Susan Oleksiwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693057997469296068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-2188433911782185952016-01-07T19:10:41.332-05:002016-01-07T19:10:41.332-05:00John and Barry-
I probably didn't make it cle...John and Barry-<br /><br />I probably didn't make it clear that my final decision was more librarian than author. I wanted the teacher to think about the fact that she was effectively encouraging students to violate copyright. If a teacher asked permission to use one of my stories - in paper or a closed system - I would be delighted, as long as she or he "used by permission."Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-28901261553718706482016-01-07T16:28:25.839-05:002016-01-07T16:28:25.839-05:00Me too, Barry. One of my stories wound up as a pa...Me too, Barry. One of my stories wound up as a part of the curriculum in a Virginia high school. Like you, I never complained about not having been contacted about it, but I probably should have.<br /><br />Great column, Rob.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-71540622187188754552016-01-07T16:18:09.413-05:002016-01-07T16:18:09.413-05:00I had a similar experience with a poem I wrote, a ...I had a similar experience with a poem I wrote, a parody of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," which showed up on a website called The Creative Teaching Space (http://www.inclueded.net/writing/creative/13.html) after it originally appeared in a literary magazine called <i>Maelstrom</i>. I was and remain flattered that they chose to use it as an example of parody, and I never contacted anyone involved with the site to complain, but I thought it would have been nice if someone had asked permission of <i>me</i> to use the poem.Barry Erganghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305184548497082776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-80717368879353893882016-01-06T10:29:10.875-05:002016-01-06T10:29:10.875-05:00Web pages will live forever, unless someone quite ...Web pages will live forever, unless someone quite specifically, and at great effort, kills them. As far as being on the web - well, I've got a fan in Shanghai who's translating my stories (at least some of them) into Chinese, and will continue to do it with or without my permission. But he gives me my by-line. So I'm saying it's a good thing. For one thing, I know better than to try to tangle with Chinese "copyright" laws, which are pretty much nonexistent. Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-76520866263074759582016-01-06T09:05:20.959-05:002016-01-06T09:05:20.959-05:00Unfortunately, I don't think there's any w...Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to protect your intellectual property rights once they've gotten on the web. You may still technically own them and be the copyright holder, but once the toothpaste is out of the tube, so to speak. Even our novels, which were never published on the web except as commodities to sell are being sold at pirate sites. And it's probably fruitless to try to go after them 'cause even if you win another one pops up tomorrow. I don't like it. And I tend to be a fighter, but some things you just can't fight.Paul D. Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466234708772287399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-28131726672570474492016-01-06T08:28:39.588-05:002016-01-06T08:28:39.588-05:00You are right- it is fascinating what lives up on ...You are right- it is fascinating what lives up on the web and how easily even copyrighted works go into the virtual public domain.<br />However, I think within reason having one's work out in the world is not a bad thing- especially if one has been paid at least once.janice lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-53268347219566653732016-01-06T01:03:15.836-05:002016-01-06T01:03:15.836-05:00It really is amazing how web pages live on and on ...It really is amazing how web pages live on and on unless someone takes the time to pull them down. Schools are especially bad about leaving pages up "forever" once they've been created. I'm always amazed, doing research, at the number of pages up from classes in whatnot that were offered "spring 2001." When I try to find the professor, they are not even at that school any more. And looking up the course number usually shows it's been discontinued. <br /><br />Neither here nor there, I guess. But they say the mark of good writing is that it engages the reader. So there you go. It worked! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com