Con Living by E M Foner

Author:E M Foner [Foner, E M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foner Books
Published: 2020-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

“I can’t stay for the whole meeting because I have to get to theatre practice,” Harry informed the other board members as he took his seat. “And I’m sorry I’m late, but I met Irene for an early dinner at the food court because she’s doing an extra volunteering shift today.”

“We were just discussing the potential for recruiting new cooperative members at the con,” Jack told him. “Flower has a plan in motion to promote the independent living deck that I have to admit isn’t half bad, but I’ll wait until Dave gets here so you don’t have to listen to it twice.”

“Dave’s not going to make it,” Maureen said, setting down her coffee. “I ran into him in the corridor and he said it takes him an hour to get prepared for if he has to stand in for M793qK.”

“An hour?” Harry asked. “I had a disastrous fling with method acting in college. I hope he’s not standing in front of the mirror trying to get inside the Farling’s head.”

“It’s his new costume. I think it just takes him that long to get dressed. I’m going to go back and grab a Danish. Flower has me working so hard that I need the sugar.”

“Bring one for me if there’s anything good left,” Brenda said, looking up from where she and Nancy had their heads together over a large tab.

“Really?” Nancy asked, pointing at a sentence in the fine print. “All presentations and lectures become the property of the con unless otherwise negotiated?”

“I made Flower put that in the contract,” Brenda said. “She wants to record all of the sessions and be able to publish a transcript, and without the intellectual property clause, the speakers could take her to court for copyright infringement. Laws vary across the different species, but everybody agrees it’s safest for the promoter to do a rights grab.”

“And what if any of our presenters want to reuse something from their con sessions in a book? Does that mean they need to license the rights back from Flower?”

“Dollnick law states that the right to publish always remains with the creator unless there’s a specific contract proving it was work-for-hire, like if Flower employed you to write an instruction booklet about, I don’t know, living on board.”

“So two parties can end up holding the copyright to the same material?”

“More than two under Dollnick law, but they’re restricted to different publication domains. For example, the rights Flower takes under this contract are limited to verbatim reproduction of the sessions for educational purposes, and snippets up to ten seconds for promotional use.”

“Last cheese Danish,” Maureen said, setting a plate before Brenda.

“So let’s get started and I’ll fill in Dave when I see him at lunch tomorrow,” Jack said. “Maureen? Do you want to explain the lists?”

The marketing director for the independent living cooperative, and now MultiCon, washed down a bite of her apple Danish with a swallow of coffee. “Basically, Flower got conned, if you’ll pardon the pun, when she bought attendee lists for defunct cons on Earth.

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