Nick Gibbs":3sb995do said:
I've emailed the technical department and will post the moment I have news about BW22.
On a separate note, about the publication of WIP from forums in magazines, I would just add that people may underestimate how much work is often done to a project to interpret, clarify and expand instructions, not to mention the addition of illustrations. Often we just extract one or two (and sometimes more) key techniques so that they can be used by woodworkers for something else later on. That said, I will always check the provenance of projects from readers in the future, though I don't think I've offended before!!!
Nick
Nick, are you saying you take stuff from forums, repackage and publish it? How does the author get recompense?
I for one, would be outraged if you took something substantial I wrote in a woodworking forum and used it in some way in a printed magazine format without at minimum asking my permission, and better still, offering financial reward. On the other hand, if I write something intended for publication in print, I write for that medium, and it doesn't appear in what I consider to be a polished publishable form in a woodworking forum, or similar, until much later, many months later.
Maybe I'm a bit of an oddball nowadays, but I've always been, perhaps sadly, a bit protective of my intellectual property, of which my written work is a part. I realise that online public forums have particular intellectual property issues, and maybe I've completely misunderstood what you said.
There again, I haven't written anything intended for publication in a journal or magazine for some time, so perhaps my alarm bell is ringing needlessly. I haven't stopped writing for publication; it's just that the writing I'm working on now isn't aimed at publication in a journal or a magazine. Slainte.
