Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:15:30 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Posting copyrighted articles
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 11:49 PM 11/3/2002 -0500, Ted White wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
>To: <WSFAList at KeithLynch.net>
>Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:19 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Posting copyrighted articles
>
> > Everyone:  Please don't post copyrighted news articles to this list.
> > Posting the whole article goes far beyond "fair use".  It also really
> > drives up the list volume, which tends to drive people off the list.
> > Instead, just post the URL, and maybe a sample paragraph.  Then anyone
> > who wants to can go read it for themselves.  Thanks.
>
>I generally agree with you but think the Sheffield obituary from the POST
>deserves to be an exception.   He was one of us.

I seriously debated just posting the URL but several people have complained
elsewhere about being given URLs to sites that require registration, the
Post and the NYT being the two main ones.  Since the piece was short,
included the copyright information, and was about the passing of a close
member of our community -- author, Disclave GoH, and neighbor -- I decided
to send it to the list.

In the main I agree with you, and hope that others will as well.

I just saw him, what seems to be only a couple of months ago, at a library
event in Baltimore.  When doing autographing later he wanted to know who he
should write it to and was surprised when I said that it was for me.  "You
do know that this is a boys book, for teenagers?" he asked somewhat
anxiously.  I assured him that I did, that I read them myself.

I'd been looking forward to having a chance to talk with him more about the
overlap between YA and general fiction, that the first autographed book of
his that I had was a gift from the Disclave where he was GoH, the first
time I worked security/ops and started finding my way into what I wanted to
do in fandom.  I didn't know that I wasn't going to see him again.

Elspeth