It's been a very busy day for me, but not a bad one. Two books arrived for me in the post today, both of them very beautiful. The first of them is Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy, by Tommaso Astarita. This is for research, about which I may say more later.
The second is The Company He Keeps, the latest Postscripts anthology, in which I have a story entitled, 'Dreamspace' (previously unpublished, etc.) This is my contributor's copy, of course. I believe it must be the traycased hardcover version, as it came in a lovely dark green box with a green ribbon and green velvet fuzz on the inside of the lid.
I turned the pages with some excitement and was very pleasantly surprised to find that my little tale is illustrated – a picture of a little girl in a cave-like environment full of soap bubbles, with spooky eyes in the darkness behind some stalagmite things.
I look forward to reading the other stories. Back to work now…
Copyright and all that.Also, I have no scanner.Additionally, I have no arms.Or body.
You didn’t scan the illo! 😥
Originally posted by quentinscrisp:Copyright and all that.Oh yeah… :worried:
Copyright is the reason I hotlink all images on this blog. That way, where they are from is written into them. I know that a lot of people think that copyright is fascist, but it’s there for a reason. Obviously, it can be abused, but it does, at least, in theory, protect some creatives from getting screwed.
Evans writes:If you wanted to post a photo of the image within the book (as opposed to on it’s own) I don’t think anyone would mind. obviously there’s all sorts of laws governing what is considered Fair Usage or Contextual Usage of copyrighted material. If people claim that showing that image in context in any form of casual photography is illegal then, by those arguments, posting a picture of a jacketed book or even a high street scene (because it would inevitably contain images copyrighted advertisements)is also illegal. To take it to another extreme all quoting from copyrighted texts would be illegal which, quite frankly, is verging on the ridiculous. I feel people get too uptight about some aspects of copyright while overlooking the main causes of piracy (for example being overly keen to rush into digitisation and other things which, for convenience’s sake, homogenise the piece of creative work and add it to the general information pool. Not that those are automatically wrong but like all things they have downsides which should be considered)
Evans writes:Ohh and of cause congratulations for PS finally getting the story into print.
Congratulations! That’s a handsome book! Good that you like the illustration. You have almost always had fantastic illustrations.
I’ve just realised I’ve been neglecting this post.Originally posted by anonymous:If you wanted to post a photo of the image within the book (as opposed to on it’s own) I don’t think anyone would mind. obviously there’s all sorts of laws governing what is considered Fair Usage or Contextual Usage of copyrighted material. Yes, this is true… I’m sure I have broken rules in the past despite generally trying to keep to them. I’m sure that some people have been tolerant of me, too, in this. But my other reasons do still stand. No scanner, etc.Originally posted by anonymous:I feel people get too uptight about some aspects of copyright while overlooking the main causes of piracy (for example being overly keen to rush into digitisation and other things which, for convenience’s sake, homogenise the piece of creative work and add it to the general information pool. Not that those are automatically wrong but like all things they have downsides which should be considered)I think this is definitely a case of the spirit and not the letter of the law being important. If culture is at all important then we must value those who produce it. This offends some people’s sense of equality, but I tend to feel that those who are offended have a warped sense of equality anyway. Originally posted by anonymous:Ohh and of cause congratulations for PS finally getting the story into print.Thank you.Originally posted by solid copper:Congratulations! That’s a handsome book! Good that you like the illustration. You have almost always had fantastic illustrations.Thank you. I’m tempted to ask which illustrations weren’t fantastic, but that would be naughty of me.