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- From: tommc@hpcvusc.cv.hp.com (Tom McFarland)
- Subject: Re: One of my "heard on the air" postings in IFR unattributed
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:09:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.003146.8745@xymox.palo-alto.ca.us>, philf@xymox.palo-alto.ca.us (Phil Fernandez) writes:
- |> I received and read my January 1993 issue of _IFR_ magazine this week.
- |> I was rather surprised when I read the "On The Air" section to find,
- |> verbatim, a posting I had made to rec.aviation some months ago. I had
- |> posted this story (about a Cessna who could not understand their
- |> squawk code from LA Center) as a "heard on the air" humorous posting
- |> here.
- |>
- |> The story in IFR Magazine was attributed to "Anonymous."
- |>
- |> This doesn't really upset me in a big way, but it was rather
- |> disappointing. There was a discussion on rec.aviation some months ago
- |> about this "problem," and at the time, I recall that Paul Bertorelli,
- |> editor of IFR, had passed on a commitment to stop printing
- |> unauthorized, unattributed material in his magazine obtained from
- |> rec.aviation. Does anyone have recollection of the earlier discussion
- |> here, and recall how things sorted out with IFR?
-
- Yes. IFR had published one of my rec.aviation posts, complete with signiture.
- After a short discussion on the net, one of the rec.aviators (Chris Pettus?)
- put Paul in contact with me. Paul apologized profusely and said that they
- would change the way they accepted submissions. He promised not to print
- anything without checking with the author first. Like you, I wasn't
- particularly irate over the incident, just annoyed. For what ever its
- worth, Paul did not promise to avoid unattributed material, just unauthorized.
- BTW, there was no fee involved with the submitter and since something sent
- to the public domain doesn't seem to be protected by copyright laws, no
- laws were broken... morality was just a might bent.
-
- I found two things particularly disturbing about the IFR incident.
- First, IFR used my letter in a way I hadn't intended. Second, there
- was my letter, jogged off without any particular concern as to style
- or accuracy, with my name on it, looking just like every other piece
- of material in the mag. Knowing that I hadn't authorized the letter
- and hadn't taken particular care in constructing it made me wonder
- about every other letter/article in the mag. Where had it come from?
- Does the author know it is published in this form? How accurate is it?
- The whole magazine became suspect for me.
-
- |> pmf
- |> pp-asmel-ia
- |> mooney n5632j
-
- Tom McFarland
- <tommc@cv.hp.com>
- Comanche 5943P
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