Re: Holy Ober and Associates

Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:31:34 -0500

i for one am going to write to mssrs. harold ober and associates and tell them
all to go read more of what they are imprisoning, and i hope many of my fellow
fishers find time to try the same...matt

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:54:39 -0400 mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu (Matt
Kozusko) wrote:

>I just ran across this at a Langston Hughes site.  You will note the
>uncanny resemblance to a note received by our own web caperer, Luke.
>
>relevant URLs:
>http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/notification.html
>http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/holden/ober1.html
>
>--------message text (quoted)-------------
>
>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:41:57 -0400
>     From: "Harold Ober Associates, Inc." <ober@superlink.net>
>     Subject: Langston Hughes
>     To: diesmanj@NKU.EDU
>
>     Dear Ms. Diesman,
>
>     We are the literary representatives of the Estate of Langston
>Hughes. While we appreciate your interest in poetry of
>     Langston Hughes, posting the text of the poems on your site without
>permission is copyright infringement.
>
>     We would be happy to allow you to encourage people to read the
>poetry of Langston Hughes, but ask that you limit
>     the number of poems on your site to five.  You can then let people
>know that a wonderful collection is available from
>     Alfred A. Knopf.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Chris Byrne
>     Harold Ober Associates Incorporated
>
>------end quoted message text---------
>
>--
>Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu