[Sca-cooks] Dame H's work

Caointiarn caointiarn1 at bresnan.net
Tue Apr 1 16:05:05 PDT 2008


No hard feelings  -- so long as we are told when the publishing date is and 
where to line up for signed copies . . . .
Caointiarn


> Just in case folks were wondering...when Dame Hauviette was on this list, 
> she shared her research and feast information most willingly, as have I 
> over
> the years I've been on this list.  In addition, she has continued to do 
> so, now that she is no longer with us.  In fact, many of the recipes I 
> used, and
> put into the file on Yahoo, came from her previous work.  However, in the 
> case of the Turkish recipes that she loaned me, it is not just her wish 
> that
> I not publish the recipes.  Her publisher would have a fit...and might 
> even  be able to bring legal action, if I violated the copyright on them, 
> even
> here.  This will be a means of earning income for her, so, in this case, 
> sharing out the recipes would, in effect, be taking money from not only 
> her
> pocket, but that of the people who are working with her to create the 
> ebook.  She has said that SCA members will be given a discount on the 
> book.
>
> I really don't want folks to think that this is just a matter of 
> selfishness, which could be inferred from Urtatim's comment (I know that
> can't be the way you mean it, dear lady...but it kind of came across that 
> way), but more a potentially legal situation.
>
> Kiri




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