Re: Pets and Plants - A Free Ebook

**"Duane Campbell" d*@chilitech.net**

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Green" d.green@xplornet.com

> Because Duane didn't ask me directly - but put it to the list - I'll 
> respond
> to the list.  It is necessary to 1) make sure the email gets through your
> spam filters and 2) enter a correct email address to get the email from 
> this
> link.

My spam filter identifies spam in the inbox but does not block it. And I 
understand that it is possible to mistype an email address, so after an hour 
I reordered and triple checked that I had my email address right. Thanks, 
Sheri Ann, for sending it to me.

A more interesting question, though, it that of electronic publication 
rights.  I wrote Bill, the Garden Cat, at least the original, and had I been 
asked if it was OK to put it in an ebook I surely would have acceded, but I 
wasn't asked. When Pat put it in his "Best of" book, he requested permission 
first and I believe paid me a nominal sum.

Perhaps because it has been so drastically edited, there may be some thought 
that it comes under the fair use doctrine. But that would entail notice in 
some form that it was only an excerpt. And though everyone here knows that 
any writer resents the changing of a single word they wrote, the radical 
surgery in this case leaves the patient as little more than a scrap of meat 
on the gurney.

If anyone would be interested in seeing the whole piece (about a thousand 
words), email me off list and I'll send it to you.

D 

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