On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:24:49 +0100 Sat, 4 Sep 99 01:28:04 BST, you wrote: >Having "borrowed" my gf's scanner, I feel like OCR'ing a lot of the articles >that I've got in my scrapbook (the real one, not the web one). > >Anyone know who the best people to approach would be with regards getting >permission to use a lot of it. It's presumably possible for YS stuff, but >what about Crash/SU/NCE ?
First of all, contact the final publishers, as chances are they hold most of the copyrights. If they show no interest (and _don't_ say "no"), they try and track down the original writers as copyright is quite possibly owned by them anyway. A lot of YS writers only gave Dennis/Future Publishing "first serial rights", which means that Dennis/Future can print the article once, but not again, and the copyright is owned by the original writer. As a general rule, the original writers will be fine with it, so long as you've bothered to try and find them to ask them. I've found about 25 ex-YS writers, and only two declined (Jonathan Nash being one of them, so remember that as he covered a lot of SAM stuff). Of course, all scanned YS articles will be gratefully accepted on my site :) Nick, only speaking from his YS experiences. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- ---- Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- ----------------------------------------------------------- ------ The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years ------ ------- http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm ------- -----------------------------------------------------------
