Booth's Derringer

[Wesley Harris]

(11-05-2013 09:28 AM)Rhatkinson Wrote:  

(11-05-2013 07:24 AM)Wesley Harris Wrote:  The article featured on that website is mine; without regard to copyright law or permission from me or America's Civil War magazine, I might add. But as they say in Hollywood, the only bad publicity is no publicity at all.

Wesley, just for my edification in the future, is it not proper to link an article here from another website? Your message seems to indicate that Rick did something improper by linking your article. I have done that many times on this forum but won't any longer if that is bad manners. I'm just confused because the article clearly lists you as the author.

Thanks,
Heath

ps - I just realized Wes' objection: that the site Rick linked it from used his article without permission; not that Rick did. I was confused because I quickly glanced as the link and saw "wesclark.com" and assumed it was Wes Harris by mistake. My apologies.

Correct, Heath. Rick did nothing wrong. He provided a link which is the proper way to refer to someone else's writing. The website that posted my article is the culprit. Not that it's a big deal. That was the very first thing I wrote on Booth's pistol and now I'm wanting my name connected to the topic to promote the upcoming book. Many webpage creators don't understand copyright law but "Wes Clark" did at least attribute it to me and the magazine.

Just for everyone's FYI, anything you write is copyright-protected the moment you write it. It does not have to be published or registered at the Copyright Office to be protected. It is your property. The stuff we look at frequently here from the 1860s through the turn of the century is in the public domain, however.

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(11-05-2013 10:47 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Here is another article by Wesley Harris http://diggingthepast.blogspot.com/2011/...senal.html

That is my history blog...please subscribe to it as I'll be posting more assassination stuff soon.