Re: Collecting Salinger

Byrd, Steven T (BYRDS@papa.uncp.edu)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:06:25 +0000 

Good point, Mattis, and if that's the problem, then we simply won't post 
OR trade (remember, post is bad, trade is good) this material under the 
bananafish banner. the last thing i want to do is upset or otherwise cause
problems for this great mailing list or the great group of people on it, 
and if Tim thinks that the trading could put him, the list, or his website
in hot water, then we won't use the list for those ends, it's as simple 
as that. actually, I never intended the copywrited material to appear on 
here (or anywhere on the net for that matter...like I said, person to 
person) and will instead take it private. Half the list doesn't 
seem interested anyway, so you guys shouldn't have to suffer for what we 
scruffy young ruffians are up to anyhow...

		--steve

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mattis Fishman wrote:

>     Hello all,
> 
>     Regarding posting the uncollected/underpublished stories on
>     this list, I am surprised that Tim O'Connor, the list owner, has not
>     spoken up.
> 
>     Not presuming to speak with authority, I would simply like to
>     point out a paragraph in the welcome message we all receive upon
>     subscribing:
> 
>        Please do not post copyrighted material to the list.  Anyone who
>        does so will be permanently removed from this list.  "Bananafish"
>        exists to discuss an author's work, not to steal anybody's
>        intellectual property.
> 
>    As history has shown, dealing with Salinger's copyrighted materials
>    is very full of difficulties, and at least one web site has been asked
>    to withdraw such material. The maintainers of this list have written
>    on several occasions to state that they would not like to see anything
>    on this list which might cause it to be harassed. This would, to me,
>    seem to include circulating these stories, and might even include
>    discussion of how to circulate them, though of course that is not as bad
>    as actually publishing them to the list.
> 
>    Of course if we simply gave the stories names like "The Varoini Brothers"
>    or "Hapwerth 16, 1924" we might just get away with it.
> 
>    all the best,
>    Mattis
> 
>