On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
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> On Saturday 08 July 2000 02:54, Lars Eighner wrote:
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>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Beartooth wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Lars Eighner wrote:
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> I'm jumping in late, but obviously neither of you has had anything
> actually stolen from you. I have.
I have never heard of a case of theft from *manuscript*. Of course
my published work has been infringed. The subject here, however, is
a *manuscript* template. The manuscript is not the final form of the
work (one hopes).
> If you are arguing about whether the template should contain a copyright
> notice, it should. Often things are self published or parts of them are
> posted on websites,
Self-published works seldom appear in Courier New and works in *manuscript*
should not be posted to the web as most publishers consider this first
publication and thus the principal value of the work is destroyed by posting
it.
> and if this mss is converted to html for that
> purpose it is not a bad idea to have the notice on it.
And if I cut off a finger, it would be a good idea to have a pressure
dressing handy. Some publishers want material in Word, pdf, or rtf
format, but I have never heard of one wanting material in html.
> It would also be good to include the comment about mss submission to
> publishers right in the notice in the template. It is a valid point,
> but no reason not to include the copyright notice in the template. It
> is easily deleted. Put it in. daveA
The copyright notice has no force of law and has not since some time in the
'70s. It does not create the copyright. It does not register the
copyright. Defects or the complete absense of the notice does not put the
work in the public domain. It is useful in circumstances in which the work
may fall into the hands of idiots who think anything that isn't labeled is
theirs to take. But for that reason it is also insulting, and perhaps an
indication of a defensive or paranoid attitude, to attach it to material
sent to a legitimate publisher.
If you are printing up a 1000 copies of your slim volume of poetry -- so you
can just drop them off at B. Dalton and go home to wait for the checks to
come in -- you don't want a *manuscript* format.
-- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com lars@larseighner.com http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request@abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body.Received on Mon Jul 17 16:58:38 2006
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