From: John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: 'Sergei Winitzki' <winitzki@gmail.com>,
'Florent Monnier' <monnier.florent@gmail.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Looking for the book by Narbel
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:16:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510E9B5F.7030105@coherentgraphics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <018801ce022f$5e1f2160$1a5d6420$@ffconsultancy.com>
Hi,
Jon Harrop wrote:
>> If it's not printed anymore, maybe the author would accept to release
>> a .pdf under a CC license. Even a CC license with NC and/or ND would
>> make it enough for people to read it free of charge.
>
> If the book was published by the mainstream press then the author will have
> handed over copyright to the publisher in which case the author's wishes are
> irrelevant and republishing it is punishable IP theft. If the author does
> still own the copyright, why give it away for free when you could sell it?
Many publishing contracts (including mine with O'Reilly) state that the
copyright can revert back to the author if the publisher refuses to keep
the book in print; this might be an option for the author to investigate.
Cheers,
--
John Whitington
Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
http://www.coherentpdf.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-03 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-02 19:21 Sergei Winitzki
2013-02-02 21:58 ` Florent Monnier
2013-02-03 12:04 ` Sergei Winitzki
2013-02-03 16:56 ` Jon Harrop
2013-02-03 17:16 ` John Whitington [this message]
2013-02-03 18:04 ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2013-02-04 14:31 ` Ashish Agarwal
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