Since I signed up for electronic editions, and am generally in favour of giving stuff away, it would be well out of order (geezah) for me to get a monk on about it.
[To my mind, it's probably pretty good for you that your story is one of the ones that everyone can see -- widens the audience -- you don't see Cory Doctrow starving after all.]
If I've a position on this sort of thing it's that I make the decision to give stuff away or not, and it's not really up to some 'copyfighter' elsewhere to bang on about 'fair use' after the event.
I don't think you *do* make the decision you know. I mean there are laws on these things -- admittedly unclear and bewildering laws but nonetheless laws. I've done the "copy a book chapter and distribute to students" thing and done so because I believe I can claim fair use. Even if the author was a complete git who hated education and students (and who can blame them) I have a legal defence I think (no expert mind you).
In fact yours seems to be the only story included in full (the other story, bizarrely, has a single page missing). Falls completely within US fair use laws as I understand them to copy a single chapter or a single short story from a book.
Oddly enough, it went out to Andromeda Spaceways yesterday. Given the vagaries of the international date-line, I expect there'll be rejectomancy over the weekend.
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Date: 2010-01-08 02:51 pm (UTC)[To my mind, it's probably pretty good for you that your story is one of the ones that everyone can see -- widens the audience -- you don't see Cory Doctrow starving after all.]
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Date: 2010-01-08 02:59 pm (UTC)If I've a position on this sort of thing it's that I make the decision to give stuff away or not, and it's not really up to some 'copyfighter' elsewhere to bang on about 'fair use' after the event.
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Date: 2010-01-08 03:10 pm (UTC)In fact yours seems to be the only story included in full (the other story, bizarrely, has a single page missing). Falls completely within US fair use laws as I understand them to copy a single chapter or a single short story from a book.
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Date: 2010-01-08 03:05 pm (UTC)And now I have my lunchtime reading. =D
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Date: 2010-01-08 04:00 pm (UTC)How's the writing going? Any new subs.. say that airship piece?
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