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RemarQ Settles With Ellison
The copyright infringement suit Harlan Ellison filed against Critical Path and its subsidiary RemarQ Communities over unauthorized posting of copyrighted stories on the RemarQ service has been settled. Critical Path will develop software allowing Ellison to delete unauthorized posting of his works, and will also appoint an employee to be available to Ellison as a back-up measure. The settlement includes no admission of liability.
Ellison noted, "I am pleased to have settled this case with Critical Path and RemarQ, and believe we have taken a step forward for writers everywhere in their efforts to protect copyrighted works." A Critical Path spokesperson also expressed satisfaction with the settlement.
Ellison's infringement action against America Online was not included in the settlement. "Barring delays (which we anticipate), we will be going to trial against AOL in late March-early April," Susan Ellison wrote in HERC #29.
SFWA has granted money from its Legal Fund to Ellison's suits. Donations to the continuing lawsuit can now be made to: Trust of Kulik, Gottesman & Mouton, and sent to KICK Internet Piracy, P.O. Box 55935, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.
Harvia Posts Complete List of Fan Hugo Nominees
"After looking for years at fragmented text-only lists of Best Fan Artist Hugo Nominees and Winners," explains Teddy Harvia, "I finally decided to attempt to create a complete illustrated list."
Teddy is a history and art buff and "I think others in fandom share my interest in the history of fan art and artists. Seeing it might even inspire new fan artists." He plans to add photos, samples of nominated fan artists' work, and links to more of their art.
The momentum from his fan artist project carried him into fields beyond, and Teddy ultimately created web page lists of all fan Hugo-nominees: fan artists, fanwriters and fanzines. The result is an excellent resource for Hugo buffs. The URL's are:
Best Fan Artist:
http://web2.airmail.net/tharvia/fan_artist_hugo.html
Best Fan Writer:
http://web2.airmail.net/tharvia/fan_writer_hugo.html
Best Fanzine:
http://web2.airmail.net/tharvia/fan_artists/fanzinehugo.gif
Willson and Weber Make It A Girl's World
Karen Willson and Chris Weber, developers of L.A.con III's "Adventurers Club" kids program, are the founders and operators of the extremely popular A Girl's World internet site, (http://www.agirlsworld.com). A Girl's World (AGW) is the most popular internet site for girls that isn't owned by a toy company. According to Alexa, the web information company that maintains archives and activity logs on the millions of websites on the internet, AGW is in the top one-third of one percent (0.33%) of the internet in terms of popularity, receiving approximately 6 million hits per month.
The mission of AGW is to encourage and empower 7-17 year old girls and to respond to girls' needs by being girl powered, written and designed for girls, by girls. AGW has received extensive media coverage and recommendations from publications including USA Today, the New York Times and Parents Magazine. Zealous about internet safety and privacy for the kids who take part in their site, AGW was a presenter, along with Nickelodeon, Fox and Disney at the Federal Trade Commission's "Kids' Privacy Compliance Training for Website Operators" workshop, November 2000.
While Willson and Weber coordinate the extensive material on the AGW site, they are assisted by a battery of consultants including curriculum designers, psychologists, scientists, and educators in order to make AGW an enriching educational experience that is fun at the same time. To make sure the "fun" quotient remains high, an even larger battery of girls goes over all of the articles and features before they appear and girls write most of them.
AGW's features include articles and interviews with women in exciting and professional occupations, giving girls an idea of the heights they can achieve and that their options aren't limited by their gender. There are also games, puzzles, and contests; a PenPal Club with over 20,000 members, an on-line babysitting class; and advice columns with questions from the site's readers and answers provided by other readers (and vetted by the site's consultants) on topics including parents, school, and boys. Six books filled with the advice from this feature have been published by a division of Random House and are available from Amazon.com and at all major book stores.
New Homepage Pays Tribute to Canadian SF Writers
Made in Canada is "the homepage for Canadian Science Fiction," located at:
www.geocities.com/canadian_sf
The site includes links to seven Canadian authors' web pages:
Robert Charles Wilson
(www.robertcharleswilson.com)
John Clute, leading critic and author
(www.johnclute.co.uk)
Douglas Smith, 2001 Campbell Award nominee
(www.smithwriter.com)
Isaac Szpindel, short story author and screenwriter
(www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/szpindel/)
Stephanie-Bedwell Grime, novelist and short story author
(www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/bedwell/)
Beverly J. Miencke, short story author
(www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/meincke/)
Ken Basarke, short story author
(www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/basarke/)
Made in Canada and The MiC Newsletter are created, designed, maintained and edited by Don Bassie.
Rotsler.com
A Bill Rotsler-tribute website created by Michael R. Bernstein had its launch party at Loscon over Thanksgiving Weekend. Rotsler.com is growing as contributions of Bill's artwork and writing come in.
Bernstein requests faneditors who have Rotsler artwork already have scanned in to send copies to him to add to the site. He'd also like to have copies of by or about Bill Rotsler to post, or at least link to.
If you're going to scan illos specifically to send to his archive, Bernstein is encouraging people to scan them in full (24-bit) color, and to save the images in an uncompressed or lossless-compression file format such as *.bmp, *.tif, *.tga, or *.png. He'd also like the images scanned in at 300 pixels per inch.
More information is at:
http://www.rotsler.com/contribute/
He'd also like to know where the images were published, if applicable, as well as any hint fans might have as to when they were drawn.
Remember the N3F!
The National Fantasy Fan Federation's new Secretary is fannish dynamo Dennis Davis. If you're a lapsed N3F member, expect to hear from Davis soon. He says, "I am planning on running a major membership drive. I have a database using FileMaker Pro that I going to use with about 250 past members in it, and so I hope I can get a few people to rejoin." You could make the first move and contact him by e-mail at: n3f_info@yahoo.com
Damon Knight founded the group in 1941 to unite those with an interest in science fiction and fantasy. Many people have found their way into fandom through the N3F, and the group has celebrated its survival into the 21st century by launching a webpage where members can engage in its activities online:
http://simegen.com/fandom/n3f/
The club also keeps up with its traditional interest groups ("bureaus") and services, and publishes a quarterly clubzine.
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