Re: Is this fair?

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Is this fair?
• From: Nancy Stedman stedman@rcn.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:33:27 -0500
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Send them a bill. There's no middle ground--they used your work. If they 
refuse to pay, contact the National Writers Union (if you belong) or the 
Better Business Bureau in the town where they operate.
Nancy Stedman

At 07:43 AM 3/26/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>A while back I sent an article to a national magazine.  They told me they
>had someone writing a comprehensive piece on the same subject, but that my
>article might be a good sidebar.  A day ago I wrote to check on the progress
>and was told that the author had decided just to use a quote from my piece.
>It was included in the letter and it was the summing up paragraph from my
>article that was pretty inclusive in many ways.  So they aren't going to buy
>my article, but they are using a prime bit of it for free as a quote.
>     Am I being naive, or did I just get shafted?
>-Lon
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