[Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's an assumption on your part Glen. They are available through at
least three (now four) sources that I'm aware of. I'd love to see you
carry any of the files into court and somehow prove them not to be
legal for me or anyone else to own simply because you wrote an article
for 73.

> 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.

Sounds like another assumption on your part Glen. It might be
comforting to believe, but I suspect you'd discover that you gave away
any exclusive rights when you provided the articles to 73 in hopes of
publication (barring some iron-clad contract beforehand that Wayne
never would have agreed to). More likely it's a case of time and
expense vs. demand that has dissuaded anyone from pursuing it
professionally. Amateur radio is a hobby for very few in the overall
scheme of things, with fewer still interested in the old gear or old
rags like 73. And fewer each year.

I bet the guy who is selling them is barely recovering his expenses
for time and DVDs, if that. How could anyone possibly charge for 'the
material' without knowing specifically what each buyer wanted the
copies for? How can CQ reproduce and sell their DVDs without
compensating all of the original advertisers, the printers, and
whoever else?

Dick, I have a set of DVDs with pretty much the entire collection as
well, maybe a few issues missing. They were all hand-scanned and came
out great. I'm up north right now, but when I get back home I'll dig
out the information and send it to you. I'll leave out the later
issues, I doubt they'd be of much use or interest anyhow.

And I'll respond directly with the info for obvious reasons. No need
to set off another wave of hand-wringing over potential 'lost profits'
from obsolete amateur radio articles that a few hundred people *might*
be interested in. I'm all for intellectual`property rights, but that
doesn't appear to be the issue here. Sounds more like a plea for
attention or recognition.

Interesting though, to see someone who has made his name and no doubt
plenty of money reproducing parts designed by others, so worried about
his 'copyright' being infringed upon. Maybe it's a karma thing?  (o:


- Todd,  KA1KAQ/4