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Post by Not Wes on May 17, 2020 23:08:14 GMT -5
Chapter 1 is up and I'm not finding any linking errors with the support pages. That doesn't mean there aren't some.
The preorders were e-mailed according to Dan.
There was some delay on the rtf files because I goofed and hadn't finished it. I had to re-do it and send to Dan to distribute.
We were also having some local electrical storm activity here while all this was going on. I was beginning to wonder if I'd be able to upload tonight. I lost my internet connection twice, but the ISP managed to reset both times and it came back up quickly.
Report any problems here or to me by e-mail via the contact page.
If you can't get the new pages, hold down the left shift key and click on reload or refresh or whatever your browser calls it until it works for you. If that doesn't help, clear your browser caches and try again. It is working for me here using the site.
By the way, Lulu.com, who supplies the hard copy for the book, doesn't seem to support pdf copies any longer. They do still sell epubs. They're less expensive here on the SLT site though.
With everything else that's happened I've likely forgotten something.
Let me know
Thanks,
Not Wes
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Post by Allen on May 18, 2020 20:02:09 GMT -5
Far, far too short! But in the circumstances we are lucky to get as much as we did! RIP Mr Boyd
Gemuser
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Post by Colin on May 21, 2020 3:45:33 GMT -5
Not Wes, I've noticed that the newer stories are "by Wes Boyd ©2006, ©2007, ©2014, ©2020" and "Copyright ©2020 Estate of Wes Boyd".
Shouldn't the first part be "by Wes Boyd ©2006, ©2007, ©2014" since Wes couldn't have been involved in 2020?
Colin
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Post by Not Wes on May 21, 2020 7:59:55 GMT -5
Not Wes, Shouldn't the first part be "by Wes Boyd ©2006, ©2007, ©2014" since Wes couldn't have been involved in 2020? Colin I'm not an I.P. lawyer and I don't know. I'll have to see what I can figure out. I just kept doing them the same as always, and maybe I shouldn't be. Now to figure out how to find out how to do it without spending money to get an answer. Maybe it doesn't even matter? Thanks for raising the question. I can't change the books out there, but can re-do what's on the site and correct for future publications. Not Wes |
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Post by K Pelle on May 22, 2020 1:31:38 GMT -5
Not Wes, Shouldn't the first part be "by Wes Boyd ©2006, ©2007, ©2014" since Wes couldn't have been involved in 2020? Colin I'm not an I.P. lawyer and I don't know. I'll have to see what I can figure out. I just kept doing them the same as always, and maybe I shouldn't be. Now to figure out how to find out how to do it without spending money to get an answer. Maybe it doesn't even matter? Thanks for raising the question. I can't change the books out there, but can re-do what's on the site and correct for future publications. Not WesI am NOT an I.P.Lawyer either, just a 'rank' amateur, but my impression is that if this is the 'first' publication of the story and it was published by 'agents' of the original writer, the actual publication date is the 'historic' publication date. If that is correct (and I am NOT positive of my information) then 2020 would be the applicable date of publication. |
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Post by Colin on May 22, 2020 3:00:56 GMT -5
If that is correct (and I am NOT positive of my information) then 2020 would be the applicable date of publication. I was talking about Copyright dates rather than publication dates, but the same probably applies.
The new books are not published by Wes, they are being published by his estate. So 2020 is correct for the second part. What I'm disputing is the first part where Wes is attributed with doing work on the book in 2020 which is after his death.
Colin
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Post by Colin on May 28, 2020 3:36:57 GMT -5
Not Wes, I just noticed that Chapter 1 was re-uploaded and discovered that the link to the next chapter at the end is missing, instead it says "to be continued".
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Post by Not Wes on May 28, 2020 10:36:08 GMT -5
Not Wes, I just noticed that Chapter 1 was re-uploaded and discovered that the link to the next chapter at the end is missing, instead it says "to be continued". Thanks for noticing and pointing it out to me, Colin. Chapter 2 had the same problem. I fixed both so they should be working. They do here, but let me know if any of you out there have problems. Chapter 3 and 4 looked and worked okay for me. Not sure how it happened. I went in to fix some typos and such a couple days ago and must have fixed and re-uploaded the wrong copies of the chapters as the fixes were all there, but not the chapter linking at the bottom. Anyway, hopefully they're all working again. I'll be doing several previous books, also, working on them now, done back to The Spearfish Lake House, though I haven't reloaded any chapter files yet. I'll check and make sure the linking works before re-uploading those or others, too, and I'll let people know here in the forum as to progress. If anyone notes typos or other errors like this in any book, please point them out and I'll get to them when I can, hopefully more quickly than I have been in the past. I'm planning on going back to Plain Jane in this first batch, done by this coming weekend, and then doing older books as I get time for them. This obviously affects the chapters here on the site only, not those full books that were sent out. There will be just typos and such fixed, no major rewrites done. Wes would have to do those, not us. Anyone noticing anything that doesn't look or read right, please let me know when they can. I'll save reported fix suggestions and do a full book at a time (and add later fixes when possible after that). Sometimes I don't agree with a proffered suggestion, or it's a decision that Wes would have had to make, so maybe not all suggested fixes will be used, but I sure do want to know about possible problems so we can at least try to figure them out. Thanks again, Not Wes |
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Post by John Robert Mead on Jun 19, 2020 17:26:34 GMT -5
Copyright, as with all Intellectual Property Rights, cannot be issued to deceased individuals.
(Yes, this is clearly discriminatory against "post-life" individuals such as Vampires and Zombies, but until they form a successful challenge in the courts, this will not change.)
Thus, anything of Wes' published since his death would be copyright The Estate of Wes Boyd, as has occurred.
It does follow, however, that the list of major revision dates by Wes cannot include the work done by the editorial team after his death.
If considered distinct from the publication copyright, which would seem odd, it would still be held by the Estate as the entity owning the IP rights at the time and authorizing said work.
Yeah, I'm not a lawyer.
I have a friend who is an internationally recognized IP Rights lawyer, although that doesn't mean squat concerning my qualifications... *grin*
I was a librarian specializing in Interlibrary Loan and related matters, trust me, copyright was something we focused on.
It should be noted I tended toward a conservative interpretation of fair use, etc., from the perspective that no library I worked for could afford the lawsuits.
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Post by Norm on Jun 28, 2020 22:34:29 GMT -5
Really good to meet with some old friends again
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