Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Hove books almost certainly required a licence from Solms/Wetzlar as Leica is still in existence and presumably holds the manuals for the originals and the logos as part of its intellectual property. Peter Dzwig G Hopkinson wrote: > Marc, I seemed to have touched a nerve regarding Hove. I had read that > Erwin Puts was very unhappy with them also. Sorry to hear > that you were badly treated too. > In my defence, I mentioned that the current Leica Lens Compendium content > could be downloaded from his site and a donation made. If > Erwin publishes a new version of the book, obviously not involving Hove, > then I'll be ready with my credit card. > There were a number of small soft covers which were reprints of Leica > instruction books, catalogues and the like. Perhaps these may > be reproducible by another publisher as the content is all from Wetzlar, I > think, with no modern content added. I have no idea what > the arrangements are regarding copyright permissions. > Cheers > Hoppy > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Marc James Small > Sent: Monday, 24 September 2007 15:36 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: [Leica] Hove > > At 12:26 AM 9/24/2007, G Hopkinson wrote: > > >For example the 50 1.4 > >asph. I hope that some agency does pick up the Hove titles as > >there is a wealth of Leica content in them. > > There are several on the LUG who were royally > cheated by Hove. I hope that some agency drives > the folks who continue producing my works without > paying me to actually pay me what I am owed, as small as it is. > > Pardon me. I was cheated out of around $US 3,009 > or more: I probably will never know the entire > amount as British Bankruptcy Law prevents me from > learning the sales. And they GO ON selling my > book without trying to account for it to me or to my co-author? > > Hove and its successor are Evil, Evil, Evil. An > offer of five cents on the dollar would have been > interesting. Instead, they filed bankruptcy and > have gone on selling books without any regard for royalties! > > These people are thieves and those with a regard > for decency ought to cut them, dead. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >