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Subject:	Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:56:18 GMT
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In a previous episode I wrote: > most print publishers do not accept submissions that were previously > published, so even a magazine spread featuring something I posted to > MOCpages might prevent me from publishing it myself. It's worse than I thought. In reading some submission guidelines I find that publishers expect exclusive rights, so having given that right to MOCpages I wouldn't even be able to publish things MOCpages or its successors never published. Amy

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		Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
(...) There's a whole issue of law that's going to be messy to resolve. Part of the problem is that IP law has not yet caught up with the internet. The result is that lawyers are forced to try and craft terms that properly allow your material to be (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)

		Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
(...) I think "first North American serial rights" is the usual phrase. It still reserves the right to the author to publish it again later, but it should be previously unpublished. This is one reason I won't submit to Bricks Magazine: they don't (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)

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		Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
(...) MOCpages is not like Lugnet or Amazon. It involves creative works potentially of significantly greater effort than a user of Lugnet would contribute there, or a reviewer on Amazon would contribute there, and it includes graphical content. In (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish)

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