[Coco] Barden Book

[Ray Watts]

John M. Eicher wrote:

>Last I read on this list, someone posted he was alive and kicking.
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>John
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>From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
>On Behalf Of Steve Ostrom
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:47 PM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Barden Book
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>James Dessart wrote:
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>>On 7-Jul-04, at 10:10 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
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>>>That's not too different than just letting a copyright expire and
>>>then it's basically up for grabs, I think, license or no license.
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>>True enough. But I think the section I was thinking of is if the
>>author cannot be contacted, you can get a license. If there had been a
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>>provision for works that are no longer published, it's gone now.
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>>In any case, if someone can get me some more info on William Barden
>>Jr., I can try and get in touch with him about a license. It might be 
>>interesting to get reprinting done on some old computer books, and I'd
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>>definitely be willing to set that up.
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>>James
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>Did we decide he was really still alive?
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>-- Steve --
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I Googled the hell out of William Barden Jr. and could find no 
indication of his whereabouts.  One clue, there seems to be evidence of 
activity by him at a date later than the one given for his death by someone.