[posted] [pgww] !!! Copyright problem? Re: Posted (#23892, Jenkins AKA Leinster) !

[Al Haines]

FYI - 23892 has been re-used.

Al


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> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 6:05 AM
> To: Project Gutenberg Postings Announcements; John Mark Ockerbloom
> Cc: Suzanne Lybarger; dp-post at pgdp.net; Stephen Blundell; 
> Gregory D. Weeks
> Subject: Re: [pgww] [posted] !!! Copyright problem? Re: 
> Posted (#23892, Jenkins AKA Leinster) !
> 
> 
> Thanks for this, John.  I've reviewed it, and found the story 
> is essentially the same, but the expression is not.  I.e., 
> the changes are non-trivial from the serial to the book.
> 
> I've decided to go ahead and remove our #23892, though this
> is a marginal case and we have not heard from the author. 
> Apologies to Greg Weeks and the rest of the submission team, 
> for not catching this earlier.
> 
> WW'ers: please re-use this for a future submission.
>   -- Greg
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 06:35:19PM -0400, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote:
> > Murray Leinster appears to have registered its copyright
> > for "Long Ago, Far Away" under its book title, _Four from 
> Planet 5_. 
> > The original registration is dated Dec. 1, 1959; this 
> magazine version 
> > was published in the September 1959 _Amazing_. The 
> copyright to _Four 
> > From Planet 5_ was eventually renewed; the renewal for the book is 
> > RE0000357956, dated Nov. 10, 1987.
> > 
> > While the magazine publication does precede the book by a 
> few months, 
> > I recall that in the dispute over some of Poul Anderson's works, PG 
> > was considering the publication of a story in a magazine 
> and a book as 
> > a single "publication event" if they were close enough, and 
> that the 
> > copyright registration for one would be considered to apply
> > to the other.   (IIRC, some of the examples in the Anderson dispute
> > might not have been as closely published as this one.)
> > If that's the case, this story probably shouldn't have been cleared.
> > 
> > Can someone let me know what your determination is on this one?  
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/18/07 12:36 PM, Suzanne Lybarger wrote:
> > >Long Ago, Far Away, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA 
> Murray Leinster    23892
> > >    [Illustrator: Finlay]
> > >    [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/8/9/23892 ]
> > >    [Files: 23892.txt; 23892-8.txt; 23892-h.htm]
> > >
> > >Thanks to Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed 
> > >Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
> > >
> > >
> > >Suzanne
> 
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