[bksvol-discuss] Re: Found the Copyright holder on the Simak book - after some convoluted sleuthing!
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:20 -0400
Dear Judy
From an SF fan and cautious validator, Terrific work and fascinating summary
of your findings!
Always with love,
Lissi
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From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Found the Copyright holder on the Simak book -
after some convoluted sleuthing!
I got up this morning and decided to do some additional hunting for the
copyright info on this book because it was really bugging me. Thanks to
everyone who has volunteered to help, btw - you are all great!
It's sort of a story in itself of the evolution of the science fiction
publishing industry.
The edition is published by DAW books, so I called the "rights and
permissions department" at DAW books and talked with them. As I didn't
want to get into anything regarding "fair use" etc., I just told them that
I needed the copyright information so I could correctly cite the book on a
project I was doing. Smile.
That led to a fascinating internal goose-chase, as DAW themselves didn't
have the copyright information on their databases, nor was it anywhere in
the Library of Congress, although 78 other books by this author are
listed. Their very sweet and helpful contact, Josh, found that very odd.
So Josh said he would call me back and went tromping into the physical
archive where DAW has actual copies of all the books they've ever
published, and got the exact edition of this book.
To his surprise, the copyright holder is listed as "UPD" (all in capital
letters U-P-D), and neither of us knew who or what that was. Josh said
that DAW books at that period of time (1983) usually purchased the
paperback rights to a hardback book, but he'd never seen one they'd
published from that era at DAW that wasn't in the author's name.
Being curious about who or what UPG is, I did some additional digging, and
discovered that UPG was "Ultimate Publishing Company," (abbreviated UPD
and I have no idea what the D stands for), which was founded in 1965 by
one of the pioneers of the SF publishing industry, Sol Cohen. Cohen
started the company in order to purchase from Ziff Davis, and then
publish, two of the best known pioneering sci-fi magazines, "Amazing
Stories" and "Fantastic." UPD has been bought and merged with other
companies over the years, and is no longer known by that name - I'm not
even sure if it exists at all as an entity any more.
I'm guessing - just guessing - that this book originally appeared in a
serialized version in one of those two magazines, or as a shorter story
version, as was common at that time. That would explain how UPD came to
be the copyright holder.
Whew! At least now I really know who owns the copyright!
Judy s.
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