Subj: Re: Fan mail from Del Rey's World of Pern Web site Date: 9/6/99 5:26:11 AM Central Daylight Time From: anniemac@iol.ie (Anne McCaffrey) To: GoldOrlith@aol.com Dear Colleen, Off-line weyrs or fan clubs are perfectly permissible provided that you and your members follow the tenets of Pern ©. For example, the dragon colors must be only those that are found on Pern; there can be no other sport like Ruth; do not use any of my major characters, although referring to them is fine; neither Ruatha ™ or Benden ™ may be used as principle sites. Any printed Fanzines you may produce should show my copyright notice in a prominent place, say, at the top of the first page. The ‘zines CANNOT be published on the Internet. Distributing a limited number of copies of the ‘zine to a special group via regular -snail- mail is the norm. That way, a group does not infringe PUBLICLY on my copyright since the material goes to A LIMITED membership that can be controlled. I know that copyright infringement is difficult to understand but I have worked out ways whereby the dedicated Pern fan can enjoy fiddling with my work without breaking any laws.(I do not read them, by the way, as my publishers prefer that I don’t inadvertently have an idea that someone else thought of first.) You and your members may write in any time line but please don’t put your work online. The copyright notice should read EXACTLY as follows: All works written by Anne McCaffrey are protected by copyright and any reproduction, display, distribution or other use without the author’s permission is a violation of the copyright laws. Also, please take note that a trademark notice is required to be posted whenever the mark, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, is used. In other words, use of that title should appear with the following symbol – ® - placed directly after the ‘n’ in the word Pern. Here’s an example: THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN® If you cannot, or do not want to, use the ‘®’ symbol, one of the following notices will suffice instead: “Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office” or Reg U.S. Pat. & Tm Off.” If you’re referring to any well-known Pern® site locations, such as Ruatha Hold and Benden Weyr, please place the ‘™’ symbol immediately after each name. Example: Ruatha Hold™ and Benden Weyr™. Enjoy your writing but, again, please don’t put it online. Ciao now -----Original Message----- From: GoldOrlith@aol.com To: anniemac@iol.ie Date: 04 September 1999 22:26 Subject: Fan mail from Del Rey's World of Pern Web site >Colleen McDonald (GoldOrlith@aol.com) writes: > >Dear Ms McCaffrey, > >I am certain that most letters you receive begin with a statement regarding how long so-and-so has been a fan and how much they admire your works. While I can agree with most of those statements, I'm also sure that reading them would get old after a year or two. So I won't begin that way. > >I am writing because myself and several of my friends would like to found our own weyr. We are well aware that there are countless weyrs out there that we could join but we have to admit that, among the lot of us, we're already members of most of them! We'd like to write for our own because there are certain issues we'd like to explore, such as: what happens when the Weyrleaders aren't automatically good at being Weyrleaders? A weakness of fandom is a constant rehashing of Lessa and F'lar... > >We have chosen the name Cascade Sea Weyr and it will begin in the last pass of the First Long Interval. With luck and some devotion, we hope to see the first Threadfall of the Fifth Pass! We do understand that this will, of necessity, be an offline weyr. I'm looking forward to hearing from you! > >I do hope this letter finds you in good health. > >Truly, >Colleen McDonald > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Sep 1999 06:26:11 -0400 Received: from mail.iol.ie (mail2.mail.iol.ie [194.125.2.193]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Sep 1999 06:26:01 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer (dialup-020.wexford.iol.ie [194.125.42.148]) by mail.iol.ie Sendmail (v8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA39303 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:25:57 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: <00b601bef852$d1af83e0$9f2a7dc2@oemcomputer> From: "Anne McCaffrey" To: Subject: Re: Fan mail from Del Rey's World of Pern Web site Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:16:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.iol.ie id LAA39303