On Mar 26, 6:43 pm, Jürgen R. wrote:
There is no point correcting your misconceptions about copyright law,
but one thing is certain: You have no right to most of the books
that you are copying and trying to sell.
Readers here should be made aware that Jürgen R. is an Internet gadfly
who has a long history of attacking me all the time.
It was Jürgen R. who announced that I was dead, a report that was
widely believed at the time. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...2a877bdcae8075
What had really happened is that I was moving and lost my Internet
connection for about two weeks. By the time I got back online and
discovered the "Sam Sloan dead" thread, there had been one hundred
postings about my supposed "death" and even church prayers had been
extended for me. Even two of my children thought that I was really
dead.
Recently Jürgen R. has been saying that my reprinted books are made at
Kinko Copies. Anybody who has seen my books and has seen the
incredibly high quality of production knows that this is not true.
Now Jürgen R. is saying that my reprints violate copyright laws. I can
assure the readers here that in every case I have checked the
copyright status carefully. In the case of my books, where the authors
are still alive, I have signed contracts with the authors to print or
reprint their books. And example is Elista Diaries where a former
world chess champion asked me to reprint his book. (Book sales are
down worldwide and many major book publishers have gone out of
business. Suddenly I have become the book publisher of choice. I have
published 37 books in the last year and a half. (Note that the number
went up over what it was a few days ago.))
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891978
Regarding the Watson books, Louis Watson died in 1936. His widow
remarried only one year later. He had no kids. Under copyright law in
effect at that time, the copyright had to be renewed in exactly the
28th year or else it had expired. The copyright was not renewed. Thus,
the book is in public domain and I or anybody else has the right to
reprint it. The first book of the two books will be out in the next
two or three days.
As this has been going on for several years, I probably should sue him
but, like so many Internet posters, Jürgen R. is a fake name. Nobody
knows what his real name is.
Sam Sloan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/092389182X
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891749