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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 15:29:45 GMT
Authors have a right to protect their work without being called names. Some may be more reasonable than others about it, but there is no obligation on their part to permit reprint of work that has gone out of print. I'm sure there are many factors involved, most of which we are not privy to. Let's not get in this line of discussion again - we already had one thread locked, a while back, when the tone turned to this type of discussion. Whilst I very much support the idea of authors being able to protect their work, there is a line when one has to regard what is produced as laughingdevil becomes work for hire and the copyright not reside with the author but with the person/organisation paying for it. It seems to me that work commissioned and paid for by an organisation, should belong to that organisation and not the author. And that is often the case, but is something negotiated at time of writing. There are a number of book series out there written under pseudonyms where the author has no rights in relation to the work.
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Post by Ela on Jan 29, 2017 20:07:45 GMT
Authors have a right to protect their work without being called names. Some may be more reasonable than others about it, but there is no obligation on their part to permit reprint of work that has gone out of print. I'm sure there are many factors involved, most of which we are not privy to. Let's not get in this line of discussion again - we already had one thread locked, a while back, when the tone turned to this type of discussion. Whilst I very much support the idea of authors being able to protect their work, there is a line when one has to regard what is produced as laughingdevil becomes work for hire and the copyright not reside with the author but with the person/organisation paying for it. It seems to me that work commissioned and paid for by an organisation, should belong to that organisation and not the author. Copyright law is not uniform world-wide, though. I find it unusual, for example, from an American point of view, that writers who created certain characters (Daleks, Cybermen, etc.) have copyright on the characters and the use of those characters anywhere, even though the show in which the characters first appeared (and continue to appear) is the copyright of the BBC. I don't think that happens as much in the US. Usually, the characters are the copyright of the show, as far as I have seen, or of the creator of the whole show. I haven't seen as much of individual characters within a show being the property of the writer who thought up the character. I think it's that sort of copyright law that complicates the re-printing of these books and also some of the stories that were CD only. Big Finish had to license various characters from the authors who created them in order to use them. So, presumably, those authors would have to give permission for a re-print. Bernice Summerfield - The Inside Story has a number of stories about the ins and outs of licensing the characters and why they were able to turn some of the Virgin books into audio stories as opposed to some others.
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Post by acousticwolf on Feb 9, 2017 9:15:14 GMT
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