Re: unsolicited contributions

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 May 2000, Robert A. Baron <rabaron[_at_]pipeline.com> wrote:
> >
> > What does it mean when a journal or newspaper says that "all
> > unsolicited contributions become the property of the journal"?
>
> It means that the publication is trying to fool the correspondent
> into thinking that section 204(a) somehow does not apply to it.

I think the publications are not being unscrupulous, just sloppy. What they are trying to say, in their poorly-drafted way, is "If you send us an article we didn't ask for, we don't have to send it back to you; we can just throw it in the trash." I don't think most of these publications are trying to steal copyrights, just get themselves off the hook for disposing of unsolicited materials.       

Bob

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