[ih] Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 3 is BS

[Nigel Roberts]

It depends what you want to do.

There are procedures for anthologisers of (e.g.) science fiction and 
crime/noir such as short stories that appeared in Black Mask whereby 
every effort is made to find the copyright holder/literary executor and 
then a disclaimer regarding permissions/payment.

But it would not be worth it unless it was a major project.


On 13/10/2025 20:38, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> It appears that William Westfield via Internet-history<westfw at mac.com> said:
>>> That would be a copy and require permission, either of all the list posters
>> Yes.  nearly impossible to get, as I said.
> On a list this old, impossible in practice.  Some of the contributors have died,
> the rights belong to their estates or heirs, and the work to track them down
> and explain what you want and get them to agree would be absurdly difficult.
>
>
>>> or at a minimum from the list owner. Some lists make this clear in their charter
>> Yeah, I suppose that lists/fora with particularly high opinions of their worth might include this in their terms of
>> use, ...
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> R's,
> John
>
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