[sdiy] Sound-On-Sound vrs Future Music (was Wakeman)

[Neil Johnson]

David,

> Firstly, let's get this one put to bed straight away. The readership
> demographic of Sound-On-Sound and Future Music is completely different.

Absolutely agree with you on that point: one knows the difference in
colour between red and green paint, the other knows the difference in
taste between red and green paint.

> Any idea just how many publications there are in circulation? That's a
> heck of alot for a team of magazine editors to read per month... ?:)

I am sure there are a lot.  However, there will be one or two that stand
out from the rest, and perhaps ones that a magazine might aspire to.  It
would be a foolhardy editor who just sits back and ignore the competition.

If you thought magazines were hard, try writing academic papers.

> When a contribution is accepted for publication you have to sign a
> legally binding declaration that you have not "borrowed" your copy from
> another source without creditting that source.

Yup, signed those myself in the past (used to write construction projects
for electronics magazines).

> The magazine is still responsible if a contributing author uses copy
> from someone else's work which is why Future Music had to make that
> apology.

Indeed.  I know of one other incident, and that was for an electronics
magazine (a small article that had copied the circuit of a project from
about 20 years previous).

> I would not like to have been in that Freelance's shoes on that
> particular Monday morning ... I doubt that the individual concerned
> would be able to find work with any other technical music magazines
> except possibly "Tambourine Weekly" or "Your Electric Violin".

LOL!!!  Perhaps "Knob Tweakers Digest"?

> > If they want to sue me, go ahead, not as if I have any money.
>
> Having butted heads with a few legal types in the publishing business
> over the years, this statement seems a little foolhardy to me! ?:)

Try going out with one ...*sheesh*... you're guaranteed _never_ to win an
argument :-(

Cheers,
Neil

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