Jeff wrote:
>> Nonsense, the policy specifically states that anything I wanted >> to publish should be first presented as a submission to Issaries.
> And Issaries can make an offer to publish the material itself. But
> under the Policy it needs to contributor's approval before it can
> publish the material.
And if they want to publish itself (with whatever changes they want to make), and don't get that approval, they can veto publication.
> But again this is not the same things as saying they need to sign
> away their rights upfront.
Although if Issaries, Inc. subsequently published something verrry verrry similar (same names, places and concepts), they wouldn't have anything to complain about, would they?
> I admit that I am without any knowledge of French intellectual
> property law. However, taking the French legal code aside for the
> moment, how could publishing a Gloranthan fanzine under those
> circumstances break US law?
Any breach of French law would *probably* be the attempt to surrender your moral right to attribution, which can't be done under the Berne Convention. The 'breach of US law' would come from *not* doing so, as this is required by the unjust and onerous Issaries, Inc. policy.
But Julian may have been thinking of some other nasty wrinkle -- there are certainly plenty to choose from.
Regards, Nick
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