[projectaon] Re: Contact Letter Draft
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:13:19 +0000
Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
>>>If her contribution is truly insignificant, then a better course of
>>>action would be to create a replacement or simply omit her
>>>material. Our best defense against possible legal entanglements is
>>>immaculate adherence to copyright law.
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> I completely agree with Jonathan.
My point is that her contribution to TMC is *writing*! Can you really=20
copyright *writing*?? The text did come directly from Joe after all. Stil=
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the consensus is otherwise we'll have to approach it differently.
>>Difficult to replace, I would think. Her work appears on pp 4-5 of
>>TMC.
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> What exactly did she do? The copyright page says "calligraphy only". To=
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> my knowledge (and also according to=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy) calligraphy is "the art of=20
> decorative writing". Furthermore the copyright page says that Gary=20
> Chalk did the "vignettes only". Are the ink drawings those "vignettes"?=
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> I'm unsure about the meaning of this word.
A vignette is a 'small scene'. This is often applied to a very short piec=
e of=20
writing, but it can be applied to small pictures too. (www.dictionary.com=
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defines it this way: n 1: a brief literary description [syn: sketch] 2: a=
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photograph whose edges shade off gradually 3: a small illustrative sketch=
(as=20
sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books).)
> If Jane really only drew the text then it would be a breeze for=20
> Simon :-) to replace her handwriting with a similar looking font.
Oh, thanks, find *more* work for me ta do, why don'tcha! :p I'm not sure =
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actually have a font that's even approaching in similarity. Anyone prepar=
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contribute one if necessary? (And "a breeze" is a very subjective term!)
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Simon Osborne
"I punched a bloke in the face once for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbis=
h."
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