[Coco] Republishing Magazines

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bathory at maltedmedia.com>

...
> I'm not saying there's an easy answer. We'd like one, of course,
but who is
> to speak for the authors of Color Computer articles who are no
longer
> reachable or, like some of the important ones, now dead? If we
want, in
> good faith, to make compilations in a new medium, to whom must we
go for
> permission? Lonnie refuses permission, someone has said? On the
other hand,
> did not these authors retain their copyrights, and the new medium
of
> digital transmission is now open for use? Do we know? Why is there
no
> 'abandonment' clause in copyright? Why have some companies claimed
the GPL
> to be illegal (or extra-legal)?

Leading to the question of who DOES own the copyright to Rainbow
articles? Anyone still have a contract from Lonnie?

NM