[Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

[Warren Elly]

Having worked for Wayne, I'd say to know him is to love him.
Anything courtwize would be uncharted territory. Probably in the domane of the absurd.
73, Warren W1GUD

On May 15, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:

> 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
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