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Winning bid: £1.05. Honestly, you think anyones bothered. If I were him I'd let it run to court and see what the damages were. Ok, he might get awarded costs. Actually, I'm totally wankered, but I've marked the thread to see the outcome.
You don't get it, really, do you? Stuff gets ripped off, re-hashed, re-used, borrowed, whatever. It turns up on Usenet, in other magazines, in papers, in gossip, everywhere. It happens. I'd suggest there's a slight difference between that and someone rather blatantly copying it and advertising it for resale. Yep, I've been paid, so wtf. Go back to the OP and you'll see no rancour, no outrage, no "I want my percentage" from me. Just amusement, a statement of the facts, that EMAP is less than impressed, and wonderment at the stupidity of the thief. I'm not being robbed. EMAP is.
Stupid, more like, insofar as publishers are likely to get the hump. As you say, old out of print stuff.... who GAF? There's an interesting exception to this, though. Before the war, in late 1938, a particularly fawning journo from Homes & Gardens interviewed Hitler at Berchtesgaden. Not so long ago, another journo found the article, thought it amusing in context (the food was reported to be excellent and the Fuhrer was described as an "amusing raconteur" or some-such) and stuck it up on his website. IPC, who publish H&G, today, tried to do him for breach of copyright and tried to force him to remove the article. After all these decades, they were still embarrassed. They lost. Mind you, he didn't try to sell the reprints. I don't know what would have happened if he had.
Quite. They won't try and hit him for thousands. But they *will* put the wind up him. Unless they find out he's been ripping off their car (and fishing, shooting, whatever) magazines as well.
Oh dear. It is indeed posted to an Ebay ng, which has a long history of documenting Ebay wrongdoing, and a motorcycle ng, as it involves motorcycles. What's wrong with that? Like I need lessons from Usenet's greatest fantasist, anyway. Deep fried chewing gum, eh? Last time you popped up on upce you were claiming to have met the rider of an imaginary motorcycle, IIRC. And when that was revealed to be complete fantasy you popped down again. Ah well.
Sorry, forgot. Agree with everything you say otherwise I'm a troll or something. My fault. Won't happen again. "Yeeeehaawwww TOG! You sure gon' bust that varmint's britches with ol' yo' fancy lawyerin' skills! I'm gonna get me some corn dogs and sit and watch the ennertainmen'"
Copyright is 75 years now. It was 50 years, and then they extended it. This was a bugger for people who started putting out cheap editions of Kipling after 1986.
Whassat, then? <Googles> Ah. Plagiarise, plagiarise, plagiarise. But be careful, please, always to be calling it 'research'.
Fucked if I do, actually, but then that's situation normal, me being a slow-on-the-uptake dimwit and all.
Oh, they've been throwing their corporate weight about for a long time. Big and ugly and not afraid to use the corporate muscle. A certain small classic title was forced into a name change by the threat of a deep pocket attack, Bikemart.net was closed down, to name but 2 I know of.....
