From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Sun 15 Jun 1997 - 01:42:57 EEST
Stephen Martin reluctantly agrees that a "periodical" doesn't require
formal Chaosium approval:
> While this is true, they define a periodical as coming out twice per
> year. I don't meet that requirement, don't think Danny does.
Danny obviously doesn't, if he hasn't published any of 'em due to
waiting in vain for Chaosium approval, which is what I understood
him to be saying. Do we have something of a bootstrapping problem
here?
> Hell, sometimes even Tales doesn't!
"Sometimes" being for about the last five years, if I recall my mailbox
I won't try and second-guess Chaosium's intent behind their approval
contents correctly. But as far as I'm aware, they don't seek formal
Chaosium approval of their contents.
policy, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that they'd be unlikely
to get upset, yay unto the degree of lawyerdom, if something was
published in what was in "spirit" a periodical, but wandered from
the one true publication schedule. Which isn't to say the situation
wouldn't be different if someone claimed to put out a "periodical"
merely to flout copyright, or whose contents were truly obnoxious in
the eyes of Chaosium.
Comments, Rob?
Slainte,
Alex.
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