[Nfb-krafters-korner] Fwd: [Nfb-editors] FW: [NFB-editors] guidelines for borrowing a submission fr...

Wed Jun 1 13:40:56 UTC 2011

I know that this does not exactly refer to what was being talked about on  
Krafters Korner, but I did find it very interesting the fact that permission 
 from the writer is not what you need  to get.  So it is not the  property 
of the author, it is the publisher or whatever term they used.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

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The following was written some time back and bears repeating  in view of the
current discussion on inclusion of copyright law notices in  NFB affiliate
newsletters.

Mike Freeman

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On Behalf Of Barbara  Pierce
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:19 AM
To: newmanrl at cox.net;  'Correspondence Committee Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-editors]  [NFB-editors] guidelines for borrowing a
submission from another's  publication

I am probably the best person to tackle this issue since I  am the one that
Dr. Jernigan taught. His attitude was always that within  the family
everything of value should be available to be used by all of us.  When he
wrote a letter to a person or affiliate and copied others, he  presumed that
it would be circulated or reprinted if that would be helpful.  The exception
was A list correspondence, which went to alumni of leadership  seminars and
kept them informed of political information that they might  need to know 
but
should hold confidential. He also assumed that any letter  written to him or
the national office was public property. If you didn't  want to have your
letter published in the Monitor with KJ's response, you  should not have
written him in the first place. This attitude has migrated  beyond the
national office. If you read an article you like in another  newsletter, we
all assume that you are free to reprint it as long as you  give full and
accurate credit to the original publication and print it in  full  Or at
least warn folks that it has been excerpted and do so in  such a way that 
the
original intent is not altered. Of course the author's  name should be
included in the byline. WE always give everyone permission  to reprint
Monitor material as long as they give full credit and do not  compromise our
intent. Our attitude has always been that educating the  world about
blindness is the mission of our publications. Anything that we  can do to
ensure that our philosophy gets positive publicity is great for  all of us. 

In this spirit, I have never bothered to seek permission to  reprint
newsletter material. I have sometimes contacted the author or  editor to see
about a photo or clear up ambiguities or gather further  information about
the situation or people involved. I see no problem with  this policy. If
someone wants to reprint something from the Ohio  newsletter, I would find 
it
flattering, and I would never refuse  permission. I have been pleasantly
surprised many times to come across  something I had written in another
newsletter. A number of times I missed  an article in the original 
newsletter
and read it in the South Dakota  newsletter because Karen Mayry spotted its
excellence. I then grabbed it  from her publication for the Monitor, but I
always gave credit to the  original publication with name and issue. I 
always
tried to remember to  thank Karen for calling the piece to my attention. By
the way, it is  extremely helpful if editors will send really good material
to the Monitor  with a notation that it has appeared or will appear in   
your
newsletter and the issue name. this gives Gary a chance to see if it  will
fit with his publication plans and schedule. Every editor should have  Gary
on your newsletter mailing list--electronically if possible--but  sometimes
the good stuff just does get past us. It helps to have you call  it to our
attention by sending really good pieces to the Monitor. Then  don't be
offended if it does not make the cut.

Now for the dicier  issue. Dr. Jernigan, and President Maurer after him
always resisted our  seeking permission to reprint. We are, after all, the
Monitor is small  potatoes in the publication world. I did quietly seek
permission from  publications in the blindness field, and we seek it if we
want a photo to  go with a reprint. But mostly we just reprint. We always
cite the  publication name and date of publication, and we always use the
reporter's  byline. I have never had a publication that I have contacted
refuse to give  permission, and I have never had to pay for reprint
permission, even when  that is policy with the publication. We are a
nonprofit, and the reporters  are usually thrilled to have us think well of
what they wrote. This is not  a practice that we should be shouting from the
housetops, but it is what we  do, and you all should know it. If you decide
to seek permission to  reprint, bear in mind that it is not the reporter who
can give you  permission. The piece belongs to the publication, and they no
doubt have a  policy and a process. You have to find the right person and
wade through a  bunch of time-consuming bureaucratic nonsense to get the
permission you are  asking for. The time all this takes knocks holes in your
publication  schedule, so start early, and don't count on the permission's
coming  through in time for you to use the copy in the issue you were hoping
to.  This is just a piece of real-world wisdom passed along in the spirit  
of
full disclosure.

Barbara
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On  Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 11:32  PM
To: editors nfb list
Subject: [Nfb-editors] guidelines for borrowing  a submission from another's
publication

Question: Now that we are  getting the opportunity to view other affiliates
newsletters, one positive  outcome will be the sharing of, the 
re-publication
of material. What do you  believe is the polite, the right way to do this? 
If
this transaction has  been discussed in the past, good. I believe we need to
revisit this topic  and once we establish what is acceptable, then that
guideline needs to be  spread wide, and posted where people can find and 
read
it.  

So please, some of you "long-timers'," what guidelines exist?  And I speak
not only of the actions between newsletters at the affiliate  level, but we
need to be aware of the expectations of what is allowed in  respects to our
publications at the national level, too.  

Again, I am respectfully asking that we see what we've got and  determine if
they meet the current situation. (We are moving ahead, we will  develop a
strong network.) 

a 

Robert  Leslie Newman

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB  Writers' Division

Division  Website

<http://www.nfb-writers-division.org>  http://www.nfb-writers-division.org

Personal  Website-

<http://www.thoughtprovoker.info>  http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

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