Bad Barry!
Peter Alexander's biography of Les Murray was commissioned by Peter Rose at
Oxford University Press. Some fifty copies were printed and distributed to
reviewers, editors and other journalists.
It seems to some observers that the Press now feels that the wider
publication of this material is likely to lead to successful legal action
for libel; in other words, they seem to feel it may be defamatory. They
have withdrawn the book, and apparently have deleted or rewritten parts of
it prior to eventual publication.
The full text of the initial edition of the biography has been scanned and
posted to an Internet site with the URL http://www.aussiepoet.com
The material in the book is copyright Peter Alexander and Oxford University
Press Australia.
Most writers and publishers are right to be concerned about the issue of
theft of their rights as authors and publishers. For those writers
concerned about theft of copyright, the following information about the
registrant for the aussiepoets site is freely available on the Internet:
Registrant: Barry W Jarrett 202 Upper East Coast Road SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE
455284 SG
Domain Name: aussiepoet.com
Administrative Contact: Jarret, Barry [log in to unmask] 2450451
Technical Contact: MASTER, HOST [log in to unmask] +65-348-5516
Billing Contact: LIM, BOON CHUAN [log in to unmask] +65-348-5516
Also for those writers concerned about theft of copyright, the following
information about the "author" of the documents posted to the Internet
(that is, the "name" recorded [by the computer used to prepare the
material] as the owner or operator of that computer) is available from the
source code for the document. It reads as follows:
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Author>Barry J</o:Author>
<o:Template>Normal</o:Template>
<o:LastAuthor>Barry J</o:LastAuthor>
John Tranter
from John Tranter
Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
Ancient history - the late sixties - at
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/index.html
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