[misc.headlines.unitex] Special Notice - Copyright

waldron@newport.rutgers.edu (James Waldron) (10/04/89)

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         Subject: COPYRIGHT UNITEX COMMUNICATIONS INC 1989
 
                   COMING SOON:  " UNITEX MAGAZINE "
 
 
LC> } > How do you get around the Copyright issue if you have articles
LC> } > in there entirety?
LC> } >
LC> } There are two approaches we are taking.  In the first instance,
LC> } we are looking at public domain articles.  A good example of
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LC> } this are the articles which we come to use from UNITEX.  I am in
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LC> } the process of cataloging them as they arrive.  To do that, I
LC> } have written some special software that works with a database of
 
     
     In fact, material from UNITEX is NOT public domain.  It is
     copyrighted by UNITEX.  However, we have standing verbal agreements 
     with UNIBASE and other educational systems, that the material may be 
     used and distributed for educational purposes by educational,
     non-profit or NGO organizations but NOT RESOLD unless a prior
     legal arrangement and contract is negotiated with UNITEX. 
 
     UNITEX pays between $15,000 to $25,000 per year to access and gather 
     this information in addition to the editing and conversion
     costs for network interface compatibility, mail standards, headers,
     message formatting, etc and editing for US release and email 
     distribution & dissemination to several thousand  sites around the 
     globe.  We are currently looking for financing/funding from various 
     institutes, foundations, etc since UNITEX is a non-profit
     organization. The UNITEX MAGAZINE will soon be available on 
     a subscrition basis. 
 
     In fact, we would appreciate some HELP from our links and readers
     that have been consistently receiving UNITEX.  We have been 
     distributing the UNITEX CONFERENCE for over two years to many, many 
     systems worldwide!.  We will soon be providing a service and an 
     electronic magazine that is especially suited to school libraries, 
     political science departments and other academic departments 
     concerned with international studies, governments, etc. We have
     the material categorized into specific *topics*. The material is 
     up-dated at least twice a week and then sent to the various
     subscribers electronically for laser printing off-line in the form
     of a magazine.  We could supply either a straight ascii magazine format
     or a desktop published version in hard copy depending on the demand....
     We will send a sample Tabe of Contents via this conference in a few days...
 
 
         If any UNITEX readers can help direct our attention to 
         potential subscribers, it would certainly be appreciated!  
     
     Dr. James Waldron
     Senior Director and President, UNITEX
 

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