I don't think this is necessarily true. It depends on the contract between
the artist and the publisher
If the author of the book is not the cover artist, then you would need to
ask the artist unless they had transferred their copyright to someone else
e.g. the publisher
It isn't just money. For some of us, it's not an issue at all! But, in the
case of artists who retain their copyright, one takes care over one's work;
and it is part of that care that one has a say in where the work appears and
in what context
I think it's *courtesy to ask generally if anyone has objections to what one
does with other people's artistic productions - I ask poets if they mind
being recorded, even if the recording is for my own use, because it isn't my
work.
And at sub voicive poetry and the wf workshop we've had poets being
photographed recently. Most say it's fine, but one said "no flash" and not
to do anything that disturbs the audience - that's reasonable and one
doesn't get such an answer without asking
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheenagh Pugh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 05 November 2000 14:26
Subject: copyright of book covers
| Talking of legal matters, as Matthew was, I heard
| something lately that surprised me. I was recently
| building a web site for a friend which used a lot of
| images of book covers. I had her permisssion for this,
| but someone warned me that I should also get
| permission from the various publishers because they,
| not the author, have copyright on images of book
| covers. He thought this requirement would even apply
| to authors using pics of their own covers in their own
| web sites. My inclination was to say nothing, hope
| they wouldn't notice and dare them to sue me if they
| did. But I thought folk might like to hear of it -
| anyone know if the info is correct?
|
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| Sheenagh Pugh
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