Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:07:37 -0500
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: WSFA Journalism Projects
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ted White wrote:

>>The diligent Keith Lynch wonders if people have preferences what to
>>place on the WSFA website following completion of the second series _WSFA
>>Journals_:  (a) first series Journals, (b) _Sons of WSFA Journal_, or (c)
>>Disclave program books and souvenir books.  I recommend investigating the
>>Don Miller copyright issue and (assuming that that is not a problem)
>>proceeding with the Journals and Sons of Journals.
>>
>
>What copyright issue?   Few if any fanzines were copyrighted in the '60s
>and '70s.
>
Copyright is automatic. Registering a copyright only simplifies the
procedure for bringing up a lawsuit for infringement -- but if you
create something and put it in permanent form, it's copyrighted and
could be infringed.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling