Date: 27 Feb 1998
Subject: Douglas Adams's copyright
From: Richard Harris (richardh@tdv.com)
To: Maksim Moshkow
Hi Maksim,
Thanks for responding so quickly. We quite understand that you're not
doing this for commercial purposes and wish to do everything we can to support
the millions who read and enjoy his work. However, at the moment, we're
entering some very big deals for the Hitch Hiker's Guide and our lawyers
advise us that, unless we protect all rights, we'll have a lot of trouble with
the ones we really need to protect - such as the deal we've just done with
Disney for the Hitch Hiker's Guide movie.
Douglas didn't actually ever give permission for his works to be
distributed on the Net - they appeared years ago and have been v difficult to
track down, as many people, such as yourself, genuinely believe that they're
public domain. Quotes and the like are fine, but we're asking everyone who has
posted copies of the books on the Net to remove them. This would be much
appreciated. If you can do this, we'll make sure your site is linked from the
page of links we're building.
FYI, Douglas' home page is at
http://www.tdv.com/html/douglas_a.ssi
For further information, please refer to:
http://www.tdv.com/html/heavy_legal_stuff.html
Richard
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Richard Harris http://www.tdv.com/
CTO, The Digital Village tel: +44 171 543 1700
richardh@tdv.com fax: +44 171 543 1701
Last-modified: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 12:29:05 GMT