Happy Memorial Day! The holiday that is supposed to be in honor of war dead, but is instead usually a celebration of weekends at the beach. Or, if you're like me, a celebration of staying at home communing with my G4. With occasional breaks to watch war movies if TCM is showing a good one. I'm hoping for Bridge over the River Kwai or 30 Seconds Over Tokyo.
Short update this time. We finally turned in the revisions to Llewellyn. And I finally got written confirmation of Dover's policy on use of their clip art in collage. I didn't use a lot of source material from the Dover Pictorial Archive, but I did use enough that Llewellyn wanted a letter from Dover on rights and permissions.
The books all say that you can use ten images from each book in a project. I had been told over the phone, a couple of years ago, that their policy regarding collage was ten images from each book per collage, no matter how many collages in the project.
Obviously this makes a big difference to a project which comprises 78 collages. Could I legally use ten images from each book, or 780? I was pretty well within the lower limit, maybe over by a couple of images from a couple of books. But still, that's enough to need written confirmation that "ten images per book per collage" is the real policy.
I had written to Dover last year, describing Victoria Regina, and received a form letter on rights & permissions that doesn't say anything about collage. I wrote back repeating that my situation refers to collage, but didn't receive an answer.
In the meantime, Dover has finally got a web site. A nice one too, with lots of functionality, and a design so closely based on Amazon.com that Dover must have bought an e-commerce package from Amazon (or else they have a copyright problem on their hands, which would be rather ironic but no fun for Dover).
Anyway their web site gives an email address for rights & permissions. Wrote to them last week, explaining again the question about collage and asking for confirmation of the policy I was told over the phone. Got back a one sentence reply that my information is correct. Wrote back asking if they could fax or mail a statement to that effect. Received no reply, and don't expect to at this point. I hope the email is good enough for Llewellyn.
In other news, I've gotten my head out of the sand long enough to realize that I don't have my greeting cards and postcards yet. They stalled out when I never got a quote back from the print shop. They've recently hired a sales rep, so not every request goes directly to the manager anymore (Don't get me wrong, I like the manager; he's just overworked & sometimes it takes a couple of requests to get a quote).
Anyway, I've taken it up with the new sales rep & hope to have prices for the printing by late next week. I need to get them printed soon, as I've already had to start filling out those quarterly sales tax forms. I'll probably be filling them out for the rest of my life.
That's all, except for a few links which I urge everyone to follow. They're unrelated, except that each one is mightily entertaining.
I really can't describe this, but you need a sound card. Click the link marked Hyakugojyuuichi.
A brilliant weekly comic.
A Turkish song about hats, with the lyrics in Swedish. Why? I don't read Swedish so I have no idea. Click the picture of the man with hands pointing at him.
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