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- From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
- Subject: Re: British humour (was Re: discrepency in Guide)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185255.10993@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:52:55 GMT
- References: <19896@mindlink.bc.ca> <93Jan22.123008edt.1179@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
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- In article <93Jan22.123008edt.1179@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>, pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds") writes:
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- > How come Douglas Adams seems to have so little control over his works
- > in other countries (especially the USA).
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- I think this is true for most authors, because the US has really freaky copyright
- laws... For instance, if I were to write a book hear and now, I'd have the
- copyright (in fact, I have the copyright to this post...), except in the US,
- because you have to apply (and pay, I think) to get copyrights. This is why so
- many books have exceptions for sale in the United States and Canada; probably US
- copyrights to DA's books are held by another publisher than whoever normally
- publishes the book, hence the difference in covers. Don't sue me if I'm wrong,
- though...
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- > Phil.
-
- -Eyvind
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