Copyright notice Date: 27 Feb 1998 Subject: Douglas Adams's copyright From: Richard Harris (richardh@tdv.com) To: Maksim Moshkow Hi Maksim, Thanks for responding so quickly. We quite understand that you're not doing this for commercial purposes and wish to do everything we can to support the millions who read and enjoy his work. However, at the moment, we're entering some very big deals for the Hitch Hiker's Guide and our lawyers advise us that, unless we protect all rights, we'll have a lot of trouble with the ones we really need to protect - such as the deal we've just done with Disney for the Hitch Hiker's Guide movie. Douglas didn't actually ever give permission for his works to be distributed on the Net - they appeared years ago and have been v difficult to track down, as many people, such as yourself, genuinely believe that they're public domain. Quotes and the like are fine, but we're asking everyone who has posted copies of the books on the Net to remove them. This would be much appreciated. If you can do this, we'll make sure your site is linked from the page of links we're building. FYI, Douglas' home page is at http://www.tdv.com/html/douglas_a.ssi ¡ http://www.tdv.com/html/douglas_a.ssi For further information, please refer to: http://www.tdv.com/html/heavy_legal_stuff.html ¡ http://www.tdv.com/html/heavy_legal_stuff.html Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Harris http://www.tdv.com/ CTO, The Digital Village tel: +44 171 543 1700 richardh@tdv.com fax: +44 171 543 1701