From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: WSFA Journalism Projects
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:47:51 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kling" <jkling at nasw.org>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: WSFA Journalism Projects

> 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.

That's true now.  It was not true in the '60s and '70s.

--Ted White