[Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

[Bob Peters]

It would cost you more than it is worth Glen...Jay Miller had his Pocket
Guide reproduced to CD from some guy and knew who it was...After checking
with an attorney it would have cost him in the 10K range to take the guy to
court and who knows how many were sold so damages without that knowledge is
probably minimal...Not worth the time and aggravation...Wayne was such a
flake anyway... I would take that story about his secretary with a grain of
salt  LOL

Bob W1PE

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard W. Solomon
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:28 PM
To: Glen Zook; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

Interesting. Are you saying that if I were to give copies of 73 
away (for free) then that would be OK ??

I wonder why this did not come up when Ham Radio Magazine became 
available on CD ?

73, Dick, W1KSZ 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 15, 2010 3:59 PM
>To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net, "Richard W. Solomon" <w1ksz at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files
>
>There are not any legal electronic files available for 73 Magazine.  There
was an attempt a while back.  However, there are way too many copyright
problems and that particular endeavor has faded.
>
>Two of the many copyright problems come from the fact that 73 Magazine only
bought first time printing and, in many cases, first reprint rights, for a
large number of the articles.  Also, according to Wayne Green, W2NSD, in an
E-Mail to me a little while back, his office manager did not pay any of the
authors during the last 2 or 3 years of its operation.  The office manager
marked the articles paid but actually "pocketed" the money herself.  Because
of this there was no possible transfer of the copyrights.  As such, the
copyrights are still held by quite a number of different individuals,
estates, and so forth.  To reprint, or otherwise make available electronic
copies, the permission from every copyright owning author, or their heirs if
they are deceased, would have to be obtained and that is basically an
impossible task.
>
>I personally own a number of the copyrights on articles published in 73
Magazine (and over 1000 copyrights on other material) and, if someone were
to start distributing copies of the magazines in which those articles
appeared, I would definitely require that I be compensated if there were any
charges at all for the material.  I have also stated, in the past, that if
permission could be gained from all the other copyright holders, and if
there were to be no charges made for obtaining the electronic copies of the
magazine, that I would definitely give my permission to reproduce the
material.  However, if any charges were to be made then I would enforce my
copyrights and demand that I be paid for reproducing the copyrighted
material. 
>
>Glen, K9STH
>
>Website:  http://k9sth.com
>
>
>--- On Sat, 5/15/10, Richard W. Solomon <w1ksz at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>I tried exploring this before to no avail, but thought I would try again.
> 
>Is there anywhere I can get copies of 73 Magazine in electronic format ?
> 
>I am looking for some issues from 1964 through 1966 at present.
>
>
>      

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