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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1394371" data-attributes="member: 14316">No need for people to get all snooty and worked up by my statment.  If I wasn't communicating clearly, let me try again:1- Jolly said that his standard contracts signed away 'electronic publication' rights, and that few freelancers bother to change it (although cartoonists probably will).  Therefore, the amount of writers you need to contact is likely a small percentage of the total.2- Out of that small percentage that a publisher would need to contact, I think its safe to assume that a majority of those are still 'in the system'.  By this I mean they kept their same names or should otherwise be relatively easy to contact with a few internet searches and phone calls.  This would leave an even smaller percentage who are harder to contact.3- For the very small percentage of writers that cannot be located, I suggested to just not include them.  Never did I say the publishers should spend thousands of man-hours and untold amounts of money to track them down.  Really, you people need to relax.  And read the posts.And just in case you didn't read the posts, let me state that my point was that publishers should try to honor their contracts.  I never made any statements whatsoever that CD reprints are different or the same as paper reprints.  That is a moot point.  The point is that some contracts (such as Jolly's) specifically exclude 'electronic publication'.  That has nothing to do with whether a CD reprint is the same as or different from a paper reprint, but whether a CD reprint can be considered an 'electronic publication'.  Now I suppose the argumentative ones can argue that a CD is not an 'electronic publication', but I think most normal people will agree that it is.</blockquote>

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