Subject: Re: [FFML] [Announcement] Fan fiction submissions wanted!
From: Otaku@nashville.com (James Bateman)
Date: 6/13/1996, 9:48 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Otaku@nashville.com (James Bateman) wrote:
However, I still think that they are asking for trouble here.  It is a grey
area, but at least they are not blatantly flaunting copyright violations.
Their acknowledgements and disclaimers will afford them some shielding, but
they sound too much like a business to make me comfortable.

I was waiting for someone to point this out.  They are indeed asking
for trouble of the highest order.  The only way they can be perfectly
safe is if the magazine is run non-profit.  If they make a profit, it
doesn't matter whether or not the fan-fiction was obtained without
payment.  They're still selling it at a profit and leaving themselves
wide open to lawyers.

------RM


PIN PON!  BINGO!!

That's the bottom line - Fanzines are cool because no one really makes
money on a doujinshi, they do it cause they love the anime.  As long as no
one calls it to their attention *officially* they can afford (indeed, they
even benefit) from looking the other way.  However, if someone starts to
make a profit on their property without paying for the priviledge, they
MUST defend their copyrights, or lose them.

Oh what tangled webs, etc etc...

Zen-

(Sumimasen...  Zen grew up in a family of lawyers... Zen is the only person
Zen knows that learned to argue before learning to walk...)



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