06-22-2006, 03:22 AM
OOC:
To respond to Sober Thought's concern about legal deposit. If a nation makes legal deposit a condition of securing copyright, I believe that consent to whatever normal and customary uses the depository makes of the material would be implied in the consent. Ideally, they should be spelled out in the submission form, so the consent would be stated, not implied. Those uses would then be by consent of the copyright holder, not under fair use.
And I sympathize with your copyright headaches. Having had a book and two articles published in the field of literary bibliography, I had a few dozen of those, too.
To respond to Sober Thought's concern about legal deposit. If a nation makes legal deposit a condition of securing copyright, I believe that consent to whatever normal and customary uses the depository makes of the material would be implied in the consent. Ideally, they should be spelled out in the submission form, so the consent would be stated, not implied. Those uses would then be by consent of the copyright holder, not under fair use.
And I sympathize with your copyright headaches. Having had a book and two articles published in the field of literary bibliography, I had a few dozen of those, too.