[META] Other People's Stories
Andrew Perron
over the various Just Imagine Saxon Brenton's RACCies series. I'd like to
put in all the various chapters of the various series - my chapters in the
original cascade don't make a lot of sense without context, and Just
Imagine IV is deeply continuity-based - but I have no idea how to contact
half the authors involved to ask permission. Would it be all right to
archive it without such permission? Is there an alternative I should seek
here?
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, hrm.
Andrew Perron
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, or stuff?
Dave Van Domelen
Andrew Perron <pwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>So... no ideas? ^^;
It's somewhat hazy ground. It can be argued that anything posted to
Usenet may be archived by third parties, because by its very design Usenet
*is* a third party archive...a whole series of them. There's an X-no-archive
line you can put in headers that will generally tell any automated archivers
to not grab a post, although these days I'm not sure people can even insert
that line if they have the wrong gateway interface.
Mind you, I believe Eag already archives all RACC stories automatically,
or at least all LNH stories, so there's implicit permission if the authors
haven't objected to that.
Dave Van Domelen, hopes the humidity dies back down before he has to go
outside again.
Andrew Perron
> In article <1vmkyjg3aqejk.1fgm3rntoohd8$.d...@40tude.net>,
> Andrew Perron <pwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>So... no ideas? ^^;
>
> It's somewhat hazy ground. It can be argued that anything posted to
> Usenet may be archived by third parties, because by its very design Usenet
> *is* a third party archive...a whole series of them. There's an X-no-archive
> line you can put in headers that will generally tell any automated archivers
> to not grab a post, although these days I'm not sure people can even insert
> that line if they have the wrong gateway interface.
True, true.
> Mind you, I believe Eag already archives all RACC stories automatically,
> or at least all LNH stories, so there's implicit permission if the authors
> haven't objected to that.
It's a good point. I was thinking of providing links to the pipermail
archive for non-me stuff, but it doesn't go quite far enough back.
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, hm.
Saxon Brenton
> I'm working on a website for my stories, and I'm in a bit of a quandary
> to put in a all the various chapters of the various series - my chapters
> Just Imagine IV is deeply continuity-based - but I have no idea how to
> contact half the authors involved to ask permission. Would it be all
> right to archive it without such permission? Is there an alternative
> I should seek here?
> So... no ideas? ^^;
Well... The answer that Dvandom gave is the most sensible 'broad' answer.
With regards to the Just Imagine cascade, or indeed any cascade on RACC,
I would say that you have a lot of leeway in this. Simply put, the nature
of the story writing process for cascades means that the cascade is 'open'.
A cascade is expected and indeed *encouraged* to have multiple authors
picking up on what has gone before. Whether that 'openness' should carry
through as far as archiving is concerned is admittedly a somewhat different
matter. My guess is that most RACC writers would be more comfortable
having a collected cascade be put up in an archive than other writings
(especially other serious writings). So, while I may be wrong about this
I would say: yeah, sure, go ahead and put up the whole lot for context purposes.
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Andrew Perron
> Well... The answer that Dvandom gave is the most sensible 'broad' answer.
> With regards to the Just Imagine cascade, or indeed any cascade on RACC,
> I would say that you have a lot of leeway in this. Simply put, the nature
> of the story writing process for cascades means that the cascade is 'open'.
> A cascade is expected and indeed *encouraged* to have multiple authors
> picking up on what has gone before. Whether that 'openness' should carry
> through as far as archiving is concerned is admittedly a somewhat different
> matter. My guess is that most RACC writers would be more comfortable
> having a collected cascade be put up in an archive than other writings
> (especially other serious writings). So, while I may be wrong about this
> I would say: yeah, sure, go ahead and put up the whole lot for context purposes.
This makes a lot of sense. Okay, I'll go for it!
> Saxon Brenton
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