ANSTHRLD - KWHS Proceedings

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

I hope that whoever is handling the KWHS proceedings for Second
Ansteorran upcoming will make sure the CoA (and perhaps others) gets
explicit publication and reprint permissions from each author.

    Date:         Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:16:37 -0800
    From: Heather Jones <hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu>
    Subject:      Re: [SCAHRLDS] *OLD* Proceedings inquiry....
    To: SCAHRLDS at LISTSERV.AOL.COM

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Gorm of Berra wrote:
> I believe I have at least one copy of this in my files (amazingly enough,
> being the herald for Caer Mear....)
>
> I am unsure of it's inprint/out of print status, nor the copywrite status
> of any of it

There are two aspects to the question -- who (if anyone) has the right to
reprint the proceedings under whatever understanding held for the
original; and who has rights to the contents themselves.  The second one
is easy: the individual authors.  The first one (which is the relevant
one) can be a lot trickier.  Historically, there has been no consistant
procedure regarding the publication of proceedings.  Sometimes it is done
under the aegis of the College of Arms (in which case, the CoA can
presumably designate a publisher to continue providing reprints at
will).  Sometimes it has been done as a fundraiser for the local group (or
local College of Heralds) sponsoring the symposium -- and in this case,
sometimes the local group has only held onto "first run" rights and then
let publication rights revert to the College of Arms, while in other cases
they seem to have held onto the publication rights indefinitely.  I would
suspect that in many early cases, the topic of continued reprints was
never seriously considered under the assumption any continuing interest
would be to small to warrant the effort.

I know that Free Trumpet Press, as the official (correct me if I'm wrong)
publishing arm of the College of Arms, has at various times worked on
securing reprint rights to older symposium volumes, so if a volume is not
available from FTP it is possible that that reflects the difficulty or
impossibility of identifying and solving the rights issues.

Tangwystyl

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Heather Rose Jones         hrjones at socrates.berkeley.edu
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