The OTW knows all the legalities and cultural issues; I suggest you contact them.
Here are my personal opinions.
1) If people have allowed their work to go into zines that they knew were going to be sold and traded on the open zine market, and at conventions, they knew that these zines could be sold to anyone on earth, that these zines could be resold, and that in fact these zines might be archived. It would be nice to get the writers' and artists' permission. However, one runs into a problem with zines from the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s that some of those people are either lost to fandom or have died. A lot of the ST writers from the 1970s were in their 40s...40 years ago. And many of them are no longer with us. Do your best to find the zine editors and writers and ask permission, but I think that it's better (for society as a whole) if bits of our culture don't just disappear from the face of the earth entirely. I am iffy about the whole thing of heirs. I understand the legal reasons but I'd hate to have something fall out of the universe because someone's born-again children don't want people to know their mom wrote K/S.
2) Whatever you do, don't alter anything. Scans > transcription; the temptation to fix spelling, grammar, &c is immense.
3) Whatever you do, don't charge people anything to view the material.
4) Some zines were never sold or traded on the open market, via other zines, Factsheet 5, or whatever. Some zines were never meant to be seen by anyone except the contributors. Good examples of this are members-only APAs and original shared-universe zines like Vanguard Dossier. (I would be horrified by the prospect of Vanguard Dossier going online, because it is full of my first attempts at writing POC, and they fail so hard we need a new name for it; on the other hand, for a long damn time, I was the only person in the zine who even tried.) I don't want it online because I don't want to have to spend three weeks writing the apology. How selfish is that? But, I failed so so so hard with Colette. At any rate, I'd probably still agree to let it go up, but I'd want the opportunity to edit my stuff a little or at least tack on some Author's Notes about how omfg do I know better now. And, I'd suck it up if it hadn't been a private zine.
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17/8/10 23:07 (UTC)Here are my personal opinions.
1) If people have allowed their work to go into zines that they knew were going to be sold and traded on the open zine market, and at conventions, they knew that these zines could be sold to anyone on earth, that these zines could be resold, and that in fact these zines might be archived. It would be nice to get the writers' and artists' permission. However, one runs into a problem with zines from the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s that some of those people are either lost to fandom or have died. A lot of the ST writers from the 1970s were in their 40s...40 years ago. And many of them are no longer with us. Do your best to find the zine editors and writers and ask permission, but I think that it's better (for society as a whole) if bits of our culture don't just disappear from the face of the earth entirely. I am iffy about the whole thing of heirs. I understand the legal reasons but I'd hate to have something fall out of the universe because someone's born-again children don't want people to know their mom wrote K/S.
2) Whatever you do, don't alter anything. Scans > transcription; the temptation to fix spelling, grammar, &c is immense.
3) Whatever you do, don't charge people anything to view the material.
4) Some zines were never sold or traded on the open market, via other zines, Factsheet 5, or whatever. Some zines were never meant to be seen by anyone except the contributors. Good examples of this are members-only APAs and original shared-universe zines like Vanguard Dossier. (I would be horrified by the prospect of Vanguard Dossier going online, because it is full of my first attempts at writing POC, and they fail so hard we need a new name for it; on the other hand, for a long damn time, I was the only person in the zine who even tried.) I don't want it online because I don't want to have to spend three weeks writing the apology. How selfish is that? But, I failed so so so hard with Colette. At any rate, I'd probably still agree to let it go up, but I'd want the opportunity to edit my stuff a little or at least tack on some Author's Notes about how omfg do I know better now. And, I'd suck it up if it hadn't been a private zine.