[Amps] old mags

[Glen Zook]

Wayne Green posted his feelings about making copies of 73 Magazine available on the Internet a couple of months ago on one of the boat anchor reflectors.  He also communicated directly with me on the subject.

Basically Wayne has no problems with someone scanning and making the material free on the Internet.  In fact, he has no personal interest (that is he just doesn't give a hoot what happens to the material) in 73 any more.  However, there definitely are some serious problems with copyrights which often still belong to the original author or his/her heirs.  To compound this, during the last several years of operation, according to Wayne, his office manager "pocketed" the money that was supposed to be sent to the authors in payment for the material.  Therefore, those authors (I am one of them) are still due payment.  Also, at least in my case (I wrote quite a number of articles that were published in 73 over the years), there was no official transfer of the copyright and therefore the copyright remains with me.  I believe that such is true of the vast majority of authors.

I am willing to give permission to reprint all of the material that I hold the copyrights on those articles that were published in 73 IF the material is available for no cost what-so-ever.  But, if the person who reprints/scans the articles gets paid then I definitely will require "part of the action".  It is because of this problem with copyrights that prevents someone from scanning and distributing the material.  Remember, under present copyright law the copyrights remain with the author and then his/her heirs for the life of the author plus 70 years.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Fri, 9/25/09, Herzog <herzog at frontiernet.net> wrote:

RE:  I don't think that 73 magazine was ever scanned and distributed on CD - though I could be wrong. If it was available, I'd certainly buy a copy. Like you I've found the copies of Ham Radio extremely useful - ditto QST and RadCom. I've very occasionally seen old copies of 73 magazine at fleamarkets and the earlier years look to have some excellent technical material in them.
 
If there was anything like a market for a 73 mag CD ROM then I'd have expected W2NSD to spot that and to have published CDs already