Does anyone know who is in charge of Roger Zelazny's Estate, and/or how I would go about contacting them? Please reply in comments or in email to akgmurphy (at) gmail.com
Forward it along when you get it, if you don't mind. Oddly enough, I've had reason to contact themself, and didn't get NEARLY so quick an answer. :-P
Do you have a live speech or something you want to make available? Because if you're more interested in audiobooks, I can tell you that Americana AudioBooks atleast OWNED the rights to the audio versions (read by the author).
yeah, no, we're not in the area of audiobooks. I'm president of the Science Fiction Oral History Association and we have a GOH speech and other material with him on it in the archives. I just got a request from someone for a listen, which boosted me to get off my butt and contact his estate to make sure no one will yelp if we circulate them (and to see if we can put them up on the web and use them for other purposes as well).
Yes, we try to. The current version of our release form is right here. But of course we also accept donated recordings from people who are not SFOHA members. Also, SFOHA is over 30 years old and many of our recordings pre-date the practice of getting signed releases.
There may have been signed releases from earlier that were lost when the organization shifted presidents a few times quickly what with Nancy Tucker Shaw's death, a disagreement between Dick Smith and Lloyd Biggle Jr. as to who was taking leadership next (so far as I understand it, Dick was given leadership, the backup archives, and maybe some records, I don't know (they went with him to Chicago and this was before my time), and then Lloyd decided there was not enough being done and declared he was revitalizing the group, which understandably caused a split between him and Dick, andeventually I was recruited into the group and only inherited whatever Lloyd had. (http://www.sfoha.org/SFOHA_ReleaseForm_General.doc) ()
I've never read them, actually. I refuse. It's well known in the SF&F writing community that he did not want anyone else publishing Amber novels after he died (aside from things like Phage Press which has the right to publish fanfic in Amberzine), but he didn't change his will so there you go.
I opened the first one, read the first chapter or so... and would have thrown the bloody thing against the wall if A) I wasn't in a bookstore and B) it was my book.
Well, any recordings made before 1979 are likely good to go unless it's a recording of someone reading their written work. (Before that date, they would have had to register the recording for it to be copyrighted.) So you don't need to worry about the older stuff even if you can't find paperwork associated with it.
Beyond that, it's an interesting question. Do any of the cons have language about panelists understanding that panels may be recorded?
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Do you have a live speech or something you want to make available? Because if you're more interested in audiobooks, I can tell you that Americana AudioBooks atleast OWNED the rights to the audio versions (read by the author).
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Good luck with his estate.
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There may have been signed releases from earlier that were lost when the organization shifted presidents a few times quickly what with Nancy Tucker Shaw's death, a disagreement between Dick Smith and Lloyd Biggle Jr. as to who was taking leadership next (so far as I understand it, Dick was given leadership, the backup archives, and maybe some records, I don't know (they went with him to Chicago and this was before my time), and then Lloyd decided there was not enough being done and declared he was revitalizing the group, which understandably caused a split between him and Dick, andeventually I was recruited into the group and only inherited whatever Lloyd had. (http://www.sfoha.org/SFOHA_ReleaseForm_General.doc) ()
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I haven't read them either, after a conversation with George R. R. Martin where he explained Zelazny's views on the subject.
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Well, any recordings made before 1979 are likely good to go unless it's a recording of someone reading their written work. (Before that date, they would have had to register the recording for it to be copyrighted.) So you don't need to worry about the older stuff even if you can't find paperwork associated with it.
Beyond that, it's an interesting question. Do any of the cons have language about panelists understanding that panels may be recorded?
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(Anonymous) 2008-03-09 08:34 am (UTC)(link)sincere thanks,
Bob
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