Re: Copyright Q

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

What you're describing is a situation in which someone is producing 
something from material that is all owned by something else.  Fair use 
does not apply, since the objective is not to report on, review or cite 
the copyrighted material.  Home/own use is an appropriate category, 
provided the material is not distributed to anyone - even for free.

Trying to negotiate a "deal" with the organization to republish material 
it already owns and could probably have already combined if it thought 
it worth the effort will most likely fail at best and at worst brand the 
individual making the attempt with the mark of ***hole.  My suggestion 
is to offer the finished work to the org as an example of what the 
person can do and offer services for future work.  Bear in mind that 
societies of the sort described are almost always run by all-volunteer 
staffs motivated by passion rather than gain, and get most if not all of 
their funding from donations dropped into a box at the front door of a 
museum in some old house with no heat that is only open when there's an 
unpaid docent available to mind the door.

Gene Kim-Eng


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