[Milsurplus] Wayne

[Glen Zook]

The truth be known, Wayne Green did NOT own the copyrights to most of the material published in 73.  He only bought first publication rights and, usually, first reprint rights.  The copyrights remained with the author.  This was unlike QST (etc.) which the ARRL demanded ownership of the copyrights even during the many decades that the ARRL paid absolutely nothing for the articles.

I wrote a number of articles for 73 Magazine (as well as several other magazines) and still have, in my files, the original letters of acceptance which definitely specify that he was purchasing only certain rights and NOT the actual copyright.

Purchasing only first publication rights, and usually first reprint rights, is very common among magazines and the actual copyright remains with the author.

What a magazine copyright does is to cover the actual presentation of the material and not the material itself when only certain rights are conveyed to the magazine.
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


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Very glad  Wayne turned  73  over into the public   domain.
A very  good   resource ...   actually   the  ARRL  could  
do the  same  with  QST older issues   scanned  well.

Many Times  we  need  Ads  to  go  next to  equipment in 
displays ... for example  I needed some  ESSCO Terminal  Unit  ads
and   got  nice  copy  for  the   printed  files   on acrices.org of the 73.
Hey!  not a lot out there on ESSCO... would be happy to    find more
info. manuals  and  even a few more  pieces of  modems  and TU's


Now there is the founding of Killobaud. Wayne is  connected  with  that  
but  I get  different  versions  of it. 
Has anyone  come  up  with a definitive  answer on the  history of  this!?