[bksvol-discuss] Re: Found the Copyright holder on the Simak book - after some convoluted sleuthing!
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:59:08 -0700 (PDT)
Good for you, Judy!! What a fascinating story!!
G.Cindy
--- On Fri, 5/16/08, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Found the Copyright holder on the Simak book -
> after some convoluted sleuthing!
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 12:01 PM
> I got up this morning and decided to do some additional
> hunting for the
> copyright info on this book because it was really bugging
> me. Thanks to
> everyone who has volunteered to help, btw - you are all
> great!
>
> It's sort of a story in itself of the evolution of the
> science fiction
> publishing industry.
>
> The edition is published by DAW books, so I called the
> "rights and permissions
> department" at DAW books and talked with them. As I
> didn't want to get into
> anything regarding "fair use" etc., I just told
> them that I needed the copyright
> information so I could correctly cite the book on a project
> I was doing. Smile.
>
> That led to a fascinating internal goose-chase, as DAW
> themselves didn't have
> the copyright information on their databases, nor was it
> anywhere in the Library
> of Congress, although 78 other books by this author are
> listed. Their very
> sweet and helpful contact, Josh, found that very odd.
>
> So Josh said he would call me back and went tromping into
> the physical archive
> where DAW has actual copies of all the books they've
> ever published, and got the
> exact edition of this book.
>
> To his surprise, the copyright holder is listed as
> "UPD" (all in capital letters
> U-P-D), and neither of us knew who or what that was. Josh
> said that DAW books
> at that period of time (1983) usually purchased the
> paperback rights to a
> hardback book, but he'd never seen one they'd
> published from that era at DAW
> that wasn't in the author's name.
>
> Being curious about who or what UPG is, I did some
> additional digging, and
> discovered that UPG was "Ultimate Publishing
> Company," (abbreviated UPD and I
> have no idea what the D stands for), which was founded in
> 1965 by one of the
> pioneers of the SF publishing industry, Sol Cohen. Cohen
> started the company in
> order to purchase from Ziff Davis, and then publish, two of
> the best known
> pioneering sci-fi magazines, "Amazing Stories"
> and "Fantastic." UPD has been
> bought and merged with other companies over the years, and
> is no longer known by
> that name - I'm not even sure if it exists at all as an
> entity any more.
>
> I'm guessing - just guessing - that this book
> originally appeared in a
> serialized version in one of those two magazines, or as a
> shorter story version,
> as was common at that time. That would explain how UPD
> came to be the copyright
> holder.
>
> Whew! At least now I really know who owns the copyright!
>
> Judy s.
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