Hi, thanks for the info about cricket -- I was curious.  Had an odd
visualization of British players, you see. 
FYI - The CO and chief archetect of this book project contacted my mother
to gleefully exclaim "We're doing this -- is't it GREAT?  BTW, we
included your husband! Please buy a copy at our reunion!"  So, she is
*gently* reminding him (and, his publisher) t

Hmmm... didn'y know that about the Great Wat, I always thought that was WWII &
the War to End ALL Wars to be WWI.  Thanks. Lezlie


>On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:58:24 -0700  writes:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Here's a sticky wicket for the writing denizens ...(What's a wicket 
>> anyway? Why
>
>The three posts the bowler aims at and the batter protects.
>
>> is it sticky? 
>
>the team defending the wicket is cheating
>
>> Is this a cricket term? 
>
>yes
>
>> [too much bubble gum on the 
>> part of players?] 
>
>no, it's making the wicket such that the bowler cannot knock it down,
>which is the point, insomuch as I understand it.
>
>> It is anything like a slider? 
>
>no
>
>as to your point -- I'd say your family, specifically your mother, has
>full rights to your father's work, and at the very least, a release needs
>to be signed by said before someone else can use it.
>[BTW, nit: "The Great War" was WWI. It was also the "War
to End All
>Wars." Which just goes to show how patently short sighted war propaganda
>can be.]
>
>Anyway, before including laywers, quietly (e.g. in as neutral word choice
>as possible) and succinctly spell out your issues and concerns to the CO
>(ret). 
>[Though it sounds like your mother was contacted re: his intent? Else how
>do you know about this?]
>Take a little time to do copyright law evaluation so you can site chapter
>and verse. [And be certain that the statute of limitations/your copyright
>as heirs hasn't run out. (Though it would be EXCEEDINGLY bad form for the
>CO to publish against your wishes, and certainly wrong to claim your
>father's work as his own.)]  As far as royalties and so on, odds are
>there won't be much to want a share of -- a possible work around would be
>to have any such donated to a worthy cause, so no one profits.
>
>Insofar as, if required, a lawyer is called for, you need to find a
>specialist in copy right law -- your average lawyer isn't any more versed
>than the average person, which translates to shockingly little.
>
>Good luck.
>
>====
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>ourselves out. We're . . . we're like the swords, in a way. Sort of black
>and ugly-looking when we're just going along from day to day and making
>each other angry over little things. But we ought to remember that way
>deep inside us there is a little flickering glow.... --Muggles (Carol
>Kendall; "The Gammage Cup")

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