[lojban-beginners] Re: Dick and Jane lojban

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2009 16:17:05 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> > Turnip: any chance of putting the pictures and text together and
>> > publishing it?
>> >
>> > Pierre
>>
>> Â Yeah, if I wanted to be sued by Anne Portis :-/
>
> Could you ask her permission?
>

  Even if I knew how to get in contact with Antoinette (sorry, messed
it up last letter) Portis (through her publisher, HarperCollins, I
guess ( http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/29142/Antoinette_Portis/index.aspx
)), why would she even give permission to do so?  The entire book is
about 50 words long, with simple line drawings.  If I used her
drawings, there is basically nothing else.  That would be basically
the entire award-winning intellectual property.   And publish it
where/how?  You want to do the legwork, you have my permission to use
my lojban translation, but there is nothing special about _me_ getting
the permission.

              --Mike T.