REMOVAL OF POST FROM YESTERDAY
Yesterday I posted a lively and entertaining piece by Tilly Lloyd which I had taken, without permission as I noted on the post, from The Publisher which is produced for the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand by Diploma in Publishing students at Whitiera Community Polytechnic.
Today I have received a comment from a spokesperson for BPANZ expressing dismay at my action. As a result I have deleted the post.
9 comments:
Of course, any of us can link to the whole of that issue of The Publisher on the BPANZ website . . .
Thanks for this. I read Bookman Beattie's comment today about withdrawing the piece and was immdediately curious, (human nature being what it is), about the article. Have now been to
www.bpanz.org.nz and there was the whole magazine for me to read including the piece that BB's inclusion caused the offence.
What's all the fuss?
I think in this day and age if you put something on a website for all and sundry to read then you can't really complain too much if people lift stories and re-publish them in another place. Provided of course they do not do it with any malicious intent, or for commercial gain. Technically I suppose Beattie should have got permission but hey? Don't publishers usually advocate freedom of speech?
I'm about to flee to the Bay of Plenty for the weekend but just before I leave I must add my pennethworth (spelling?).
My suggestion to the blogger is that he puts the article back on his blog as I suspect his blog has a bloody sight bigger readership than the Publishers Association newsletter!
Once something is on the Web it can basically be used by anyone.
Looking at this from afar, West Coast US, this would seem to me to be something of a storm in a tea cup. I can't imagine anyone here objecting to use of published material in this way.
While all these comments on Beattie's lifting of this piece may be fair and I agree it is a storm in a tea cup I nevertheless feel that someone of his vast experience and high standing in the industry should have first sought permission before reproducing the article.I doubt he has broken any copyright law but commonsense suggests he should have contacted BPANZ first.Beattie is after all a past president (three years) and long serving counmcillor and one of only a small number who have been honoured with life membership of that organisation.
I was working in Asia last week so didn't make my normal daily visit to your site so missed all the fuss about you having to remove a post !!
Copyright be buggered, you put something out on the Web and anyone can use it if they are merely passing on information that is there in another location (Publishers website) for everyone to read anyway.
Keep up the good work, your site saves me visiting loads of other sites to seek out the information you provide.
Were I a publisher or bookseller I'd be pretty damned pleased with all your promotional efforts for books.
It's usually polite to ask the publication if you can republish something on the web. I did this recently with two photos I wanted to post on my website. I emailed the editor of the Scottish newspaper - no problem they said as long as I credit them (which I did).
However, I think that the BPANZ could look at this postively and realise that the more their name and articles get out there, the more their profile is highlighted. The article was used in a constructive manner.
Loren Teague
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