From: "John Lauritsen" To: "Edward Crawford" Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:53 PM Subject: Re: copyright permission John Lauritsen > Dear Ted Crawford, > > I'm be happy for you to put my translation of Bebel on your > website. You can either use the entire article (including my > introduction) or just the translation itself. > In addition to crediting me and the source, Gay News (which > ceased to exist in the late 1970s), please include the copyright > 1978 statement and also a link to my personal website, which is: > paganpressbooks.com/jpl . (You could simply link my name to the > website.) > I have mixed feelings about copyrights. On the one hand, I > believe that writers, as intellectual workers, are entitled to > credit and recompense for their work. On the other hand, I have > seen copyright used purely and simply as a form of censorship. > > John Lauritsen > > > > Edward Crawford wrote: >> Dear John Lauritsen, >> The Marxist Internet Archive, www.marxists.org , >> would dearly like to put up on its Bebel site a short piece translated >> and introduced by you published in Gay News, issue 136 (1978) under the >> title, "The Man Who Spoke Out: 80th Anniversary of a Landmark in Gay >> Rights". We would of course credit both yourself and the source, GN. >> Since the MIA is based in the USA, those responsible are exceedingly >> sensitive about copyright issues (whereby hangs a tale) so an email >> giving your permission would be greatly appreciated. >> Ted Crawford for MIA > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1404 - Release > Date: 29/04/2008 18:27 > > _______________________________________________ mia-list mailing list mia-list@marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/mailman/listinfo/mia-list