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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1388737" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'll take that to mean, Yes, Jolly would be an author who would be concerned if a publisher just started reprinting old magazines that he has articles in.  Partly by virtue of the fact that he negotiates deals so he retains extra rights.The point with reprinting old stuff is that it is NOT a clear deal.  There's too many authors, some are gone, and the contracts are often too primitive (is a CD a reprint or not, what's a CD).  It's almost easier to make the CD and ask for forgiveness later.When it comes to the Dragon Magazine Archive CD, its a done deal.  The question would then be, what happened to the suit that was trying to start with all the old writers.  Did only 2 concerned authors show up, so they gave up?It sounds like Kenzerco raised issue (technically they didn't start a lawsuit) with WOTC and they resolved it.  From Sean's side at the time, maybe it looked like a lawsuit.  From Jolly's maybe it looked like a business discussion.  Jolly's at the top of Kenzerco (and pretty much always was when he joined I assume), whereas Sean was one of the "individual contributors" who worked with people (the CD guys) whose product was getting hassled by suits from Kenzerco.  It may or may not have happened that way, but I can see how each side could have come away from it.So the deal obviously didn't break the bank, even though WoTC took a chance with the copyright and reprint rights being fuzzy.Janx</blockquote>

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