Sallie wrote:
< To do this, isi it possible
for the out-of-date books especially from those authors who are still
living to post them to a website where they could be downloaded by
anyone possibly with a small fee attached to the download.>
Authors who have had books published by a commercial publisher can't do as
they wish with their own work. It's all tied up in the contract the author
signed.
As I've already said, when my books go out of print, I have to ask the
publisher to republish. If he won't then I can ask for all my material and
any printing plates be sent to me and THEN I can do what I like. For authors
who are deceas, I assume their estate would have to do this.
Authors who have already had books published by a commercial publisher are
often obliged by their original contract to offer any new books to that
pulisher and can't do what they like with it unless the publisher declines
the new material.
Very many out-of-copyright books are available on the Arizona web site for
free download.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html
We had a long discussion with Ruth Bean a few years ago about the pricking
for Miss Channer's Mat. Ruth Bean owned the copyright through publishing a
book "In the Cause of English Lace" by Catherine Channer, with a photograph
of the mat in it. The mat pricking as a supplement pricked and made by
Patricia Bury for Ruth Bean. There was a campaign to get the pricking
reprinted, but Ruth Bean refused and asserted her ownership of the copyright
apparently until 2019. Did I read somewhere that Ruth Bean had died?
It isn't simple to put your work on the web and let people download for a
fee if you have already been published. There are contractual and legal
restrictions on what you can do.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
-
To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to
[email protected]. Photo site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
