To Sudek 13

[John Vasco]

Mr Sicuro,

Don't try to flannel me with attempted long explanations. You came on here and attempted to take the moral high ground regarding copyright of Third Reich Publications. That has been discussed at length in other threads on this Forum.

What I don't like is that you set yourself up as being above others on this Forum, and being the intellectual superior of them.

I get angry and call you out because you insult my (and I suspect others) intelligence.

You can defend your company by all means. But do not mislead, or attempt to mislead.

Let me put this in as simple terms as possible. You can REPRODUCE (as you have done) works of the Third Reich, but you cannot possibly claim copyright over the ORIGINAL work. Because you are not the originator. You cannot stop people quoting from the same documents that you have used. All you can do is publish a work, and put the little copyright emblem on a page at the front (for that complete book), and get an ISBN number, and send the required copies to the legal deposit section of whichever country you are in (in the UK when I last published it was 6 copies).

So I don't withdraw anything I have said. Before you come on here pontificating about copyright, you would do well to you know the breadth of knowledge about such things already on this Forum. I am not alone, there are others who regularly visit here who have knowledge and experience of the publishing industry (far more than myself), but they have not chipped in to the discussion (yet).

Don't try to preach to us as if we are ignoramouses. There's more knowledge on here than you could ever imagine. Harrison987 has got this thing sussed. Go read his posts properly.