Re: both parties concerned/red button

i imagine that they'll be down soon.

but on the question of it being wrong to put them up
on the web, i'm of two minds. yes, salinger/the
magazines still own the copyright. it's their
property. but red button is not making any money from
them. the stories are available for free if one can
find the magazines (no doubt many, many of the issues
have been cleanly or not so cleanly sliced up. but
the real way to read the stories is in the magazines,
ads and all. and a good point was made that these
'transcriptions' are fraught with errors.) i imagine
a good many people don't really have access to a
university interlibrary loan dept. (i can't see public
libraries still truly offering this service in today's
economic climate.) so in a sense red button is
offering a service to those that would have a
difficult time to find the stories. how many people
really are looking at them? it's not like salinger's
underwear is up on the web.

it's a different question regarding 'the complete
uncollected stories' that one sees for sale from book
dealers. there someone is making a profit (the
original 'greenberg' made quite a profit in the '70s.
and there have been one or two 'publications' of them
since in paper format.) but i have to wonder if those
that shake their heads over red button would pass up
the paperback editions of the same stories. or
perhaps already have them on their shelves? kudos to
their intact ethical system if they have resisted
purchasing them.

one day the stories will be in the public domain. all
of his work. i wonder if salinger has figured out how
to avoid that. imagine the obscene dust jacket
illustrations and blurbs and other disfigurements all
of his stories will have to endure.

my posting of the website was not an endorsement per
se. just a passing along of information to those that
read my post and might have wanted to read the story
lauded in someone else's previous post.

kim

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> It seems pretty odd to me that they're able to leave
> them up without
> hearing from Salinger's lawyers...
>
> Jim
>
> Will Hochman wrote:
>
> > I think it's very wrong to post those stories on
> the web and it's no
> > surprise the quality of their "publication" is
> also shoddy. will
> > --
> > Will Hochman
> >
> > Associate Professor of English
> > Southern Connecticut State University
> > 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> > 203 392 5024
> >
> > http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
> >
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