Would people like to comment on my note – posted in General discussion – about the fact that articles used to be available for us to access – and I found them really useful – and that now Threads suddenly have cut them quoting copywrite?
I’m hoping the Editor will pick up on this and give feedback!
Sorry posted in “where are all the old articles”?
Edited 5/12/2009 11:54 am ET by JanF
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There was a Supreme Court case a few years ago brought by writers who felt it unfair that articles they had sold only as print were also being published on the web with no further payment for their services. This is a big deal for people who make their living writing because the same article can be dusted off, revamped, and published again and again, sometimes for years, each time with a new payment to the author. Think of Ann Landers or Erma Bombeck, who only wrote one column each week but sold it to hundreds of papers. The two or three dollars they got for each column made a decent income when multiplied by each paper each week. Some articles are also sold for the web, and articles written by staff writers are considered company property since they were written on company time.While I love the access to reference articles, I would not want to deprive someone of the fees they rightfully deserve. If you're old enough to remember, it's like losing access to old recommendations in college placement files because they had not been written with the intent of ever letting the recommendee see them.
Not sure what articles you mean.
But I'm kicking myself for not using the threads index before today.
I've been reading "the art of fabric collage" by Rosemary Eichorn and wanted to find an article by her I'd read in threads. I have almost every copy since issue 58 so searching through old copies usually takes me ages. But I tried typing her name in the index and immediately was given 3 references. Found the article I wanted quickly plus browsing in the 3 magazines referred to, I found other articles that caught my eye.
I'll be using this index ALOT in future. I love my back issues and frequently refer to them so delighted to find something that helps me make better use of them.
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