Periodicals, --

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:42:57 +0100 (BST)


Stephen Martin reluctantly agrees that a "periodical" doesn't require formal Chaosium approval:
> While this is true, they define a periodical as coming out twice per
> year. I don't meet that requirement, don't think Danny does.

Danny obviously doesn't, if he hasn't published any of 'em due to waiting in vain for Chaosium approval, which is what I understood him to be saying. Do we have something of a bootstrapping problem here?

> Hell, sometimes even Tales doesn't!

"Sometimes" being for about the last five years, if I recall my mailbox contents correctly. But as far as I'm aware, they don't seek formal Chaosium approval of their contents.

I won't try and second-guess Chaosium's intent behind their approval policy, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that they'd be unlikely to get upset, yay unto the degree of lawyerdom, if something was published in what was in "spirit" a periodical, but wandered from the one true publication schedule. Which isn't to say the situation wouldn't be different if someone claimed to put out a "periodical" merely to flout copyright, or whose contents were truly obnoxious in the eyes of Chaosium.

Comments, Rob?

Slainte,
Alex.


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