Re: including e-mail story in my book

William Shadish <shadish[_at_]mail.psyc.memphis.edu> wrote in part:
>
> Unfortunately, to make things more complicated, I did contact the owners
> of two web sites that had the story. One did not use a copyright mark,
> said he got it from someone else, and that someone else proved
> untracable. The other did use a copyright mark, but denied ownership of
> the copyright of the story saying the company only implied copyright of
> its own original materials on the site. He gave me several leads, which
> I followed until the trail ran cold when one person's email address
> proved unusable.
>
> So I am left with the original dilemma. It seems likely impossible to
> trace the "true" copyright owner no matter how diligently I work at it.
> Moreover, I suspect this would be a very common situation given how
> these things are passed around through huge numbers of people over
> email.

I have seen disclaimers in books stating that every effort had been made to ascertain and locate the copyright holders of such-and-such material in order to get reprint permission, and that inadvertent omissions would be corrected in future editions.

Might something like this serve the purpose?

Amy Stoller

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<:)))>><( Received on Thu Jul 16 1998 - 18:32:50 GMT