> I'm taking some time thinking over the Fan Material Policy. Any halfway
> serious publication -- more than 800 items, and technically "for
profit" --
> of fiction set in a Gloranthan world would not be considered a Fan
> Publication but would come under a "Formal License of Professional
> Publications". There are questions then about whether Issaries actually
has
> rights over Original Material, and what constitutes enough of a Gloranthan
> flavour to a work that Issaries can make a claim on it.
As Greg has said, everything in a formal contract is negotiable. He'd probably put the onus of getting author buy-in for the project on you, but they would (probably) retain copyright (unless *you* buy it from them as the editor).
> It would be interesting to have someone run a test case to figure out how
this
> would usually be managed. That said, I should probably contact Issaries
and
> ask for a non-binding email opinion from an Issaries employee. :-) I'm
> currently trying to work out why I'm so reluctant to do this. It's
probably
> because I'm only halfway serious about the idea: the sort of thing I'd
> consider for publication is a lot more culturally consistent and less of a
> bricolage than the freewheeling character backstory which isn't being
> subjected to my internal MA(Hons)-in-EngLit editor.
Talk to Greg. He's really not an ogre.
RR
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fait ce qu'il a fait.
- Richelieu
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