We've been having a little read aloud project here at Hatrack, but we've been very careful not use copyrighted works, or if we do, only e-mail them and not put them online. But I'm thinking, we're reading books we like, and we're all here because we like yours, and you're here too. Can you authorize a chapter to two of your work to be read and posted somwhere online, and if you can, would you?
Hobbes Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Or maybe one of the short stories already available on the website?
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I can't. I have signed contracts giving the audio rights to my books to various publishers, and I could not give you permission to post an audio performance without giving you what I have already sold to them.
Keep it informal and nonpublic, and you will have no trouble from me. I love the idea of people reading my works aloud to each other. But reading them aloud and then posting them for anyone at all to download ... sorry. Some publishers have risked serious money in acquiring the right to do that, and it would be wrong of me to let somebody else create a competing performance.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Contracts.
Ahh well, worth a shot.
Hobbes Posted by Meshugener (Member # 7601) on :
So it is NOT legal for me to tattoo the entirety of Ender's Game on my back and walk around shirtless?
Posted by Eisenoxyde (Member # 7289) on :
Meshugener - that would have to be some pretty small print if you fit the entire book on your back, unless you have an INCREDIBLY large back.
Jesse
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Wait-- so you're saying you're not going to sue us if we did it, but kept it e-mail-within-the-group only?
Would you say as long as that's our policy, it would work for most copyrighted works? Like, as someone who actually understands this stuff, it would fall under "fair use"?
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