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posted by martyb on Sunday October 02 2016, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the going-to-need-much-more-popcorn dept.

I ran across this article, and laughed at its ludicrousness. It seems that a publishing company is sweating bullets and a bunch of science fiction writers around the world are hopping mad.

Galaktika was once a respected Hungarian language science fiction magazine, closed in 1995, and later reopened. Right now it's Hungary's only printed SF magazine. The only trouble is, its publisher, Metropolis Media, took copyrighted fiction from the internet and had it translated to Hungarian and republished it, saying it was in the public domain because it had been on the internet!

They're presently in some deep trouble with professional writers and their agents. Did they really believe that, I wonder? I'll bet if it was movies they'd REALLY be in trouble!

The article is worth a read. It was written by by Cat Rambo (honest, that's her real name), an old sciene fiction writer who has won Hugo and Nebula awards, and is president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; the SFWA is a professional guild.


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  • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday October 02 2016, @03:46PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday October 02 2016, @03:46PM (#409092)

    There's this little thing called "the law" that disagrees. It may not be convenient, but lawyers and courts really don't care about your convenience.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @06:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @06:43PM (#409117)

    Indeed, what year does that guy think this is? He can't just act the way EVERY publisher acted prior to the creation of copyright anymore. (Although back then they didn't have a handy internet, so they just copied anything they could get their hands on.)

    • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:42PM

      by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:42PM (#409155)

      People used to murder each other with little or no consequences, either. Are you arguing that we should abandon civilization just because we were savages before?