tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post462133373016565839..comments2024-03-29T09:09:33.450-04:00Comments on alien romances: "Exploit The Work Of Others And Don't Pay Them"Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-61117626657066905722017-05-02T12:23:54.309-04:002017-05-02T12:23:54.309-04:00I think it's important that true "orphan ...I think it's important that true "orphan works" have a mechanism to be made available -- stories whose authors have died, perhaps many decades ago but still within the copyright period, leaving no discoverable heirs. Keeping these works tied up helps nobody and severely hampers literary historians and scholars, as well as anthologists who would like to rescue good stuff from obscurity. But the scam you mention of making little effort to find rights-holders and then claiming they aren't findable -- !! Before the Internet, I got into a Lovecraftian anthology published by Chaosium when the editor happened to have come across a story I'd had accepted by Lin Carter (no relation) but not published before the latter's death. The editor of the Chaosium anthology found me by calling on the old-fashioned telephone. And I was far from a well-known author; I still consider myself rather niche and obscure. Nowadays, WITH the Internet, anybody who wants to find a living or recently dead author has no excuse for claiming they can't.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.com