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Copyright is held by the creator of an original, creative work or those who directly inherit those rights for the term designated by law. The copyright can be licensed to others for specified uses. Usually the author of a new work that uses the copyrighted works of others pays for all licensing costs (unless other contractual arrangements with a publisher are made). Having written a book with a lot of licensing costs (Women of the Golden Dawn), I can tell you that, between those costs and the costs of research (trips to England and Ireland, plus huge inter-library loan fees), I made almost no money on the book, despite spending over five years, almost full-time, writing it. I even received the 'scholarly' rates for use of copyrighted material. It was totally insane and I can never afford to do it again!!! Please, buy my book!
Few independent publishers have the money to pay up-front for high quality color books and the very high cost of licensing rights plus the costs for professional photography of original works that have not yet been photographed by a museum. Most works of this kind are subsidized by wealthy funds, university or government grants or are produced in collaboration with the museums that own the works. Owning a work does not give one copyright to it, and so separate agreements have to be reached with everyone involved.
The negotiations around the various Thoth deck publications, for instance, are legion and incredibly complex involving major publishers.
It seems just as reasonable to me for money to be raised to publish a book like this, as it does for someone to raise money to make a film or to create a tarot deck that they will later publish. It's up to the fund-raiser to determine what gift-incentives they want to include, and for the contributor to determine how important an incentive is, versus how much they are willing to donate. Would you contribute $100 if you would receive a free book but only $50 if you would not? That choice is totally up to you. If the gift book is not included, you might decide you don't want to contribute at all. That's your choice. To complain about it is silly, even if you think the choices offered were not what you wanted. Why not contribute $50 to the campaign and pay $23 for the book later - you've just saved $27 (assuming that a book was included for $100 - which it is not in the current instance).
And, yes, the people pictured on the GD website are, from left to right:
William Butler Yeats, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, William Wynn Westcott, Israel Regardie, and Moina Bergson Mathers. Read all about them in my book (mentioned above)!
Few independent publishers have the money to pay up-front for high quality color books and the very high cost of licensing rights plus the costs for professional photography of original works that have not yet been photographed by a museum. Most works of this kind are subsidized by wealthy funds, university or government grants or are produced in collaboration with the museums that own the works. Owning a work does not give one copyright to it, and so separate agreements have to be reached with everyone involved.
The negotiations around the various Thoth deck publications, for instance, are legion and incredibly complex involving major publishers.
It seems just as reasonable to me for money to be raised to publish a book like this, as it does for someone to raise money to make a film or to create a tarot deck that they will later publish. It's up to the fund-raiser to determine what gift-incentives they want to include, and for the contributor to determine how important an incentive is, versus how much they are willing to donate. Would you contribute $100 if you would receive a free book but only $50 if you would not? That choice is totally up to you. If the gift book is not included, you might decide you don't want to contribute at all. That's your choice. To complain about it is silly, even if you think the choices offered were not what you wanted. Why not contribute $50 to the campaign and pay $23 for the book later - you've just saved $27 (assuming that a book was included for $100 - which it is not in the current instance).
And, yes, the people pictured on the GD website are, from left to right:
William Butler Yeats, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, William Wynn Westcott, Israel Regardie, and Moina Bergson Mathers. Read all about them in my book (mentioned above)!
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