Talk:Harper's Magazine
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Question: Is Harper's the oldest continuously published magazine? Was there an interruption in the publication of the Saturday Evening Post, which boasts of its founding in 1722 by Benjamin Franklin? Alba 00:51, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, there was an interruption: "By the late 1890s the Saturday Evening Post was in serious financial difficulties. In October, 1897, the newspaper was purchased for $1,000 by Cyrus H. Curtis, the owner of the Ladies' Home Journal. The Saturday Evening Post was redesigned and on January, 1898, reappeared as a journal." (source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsaturday.htm and can be backed up by http://www.satevepost.org/mediakit/history.html) 128.119.103.234 06:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Intro
The introductory sentence should be expanded a bit:
- Harper's Magazine (or simply Harper's) is a ????????????? monthly magazine, published in the United States.
I am not very familiar with the mag, having read only a few random articles linked from various sites, so I don't have a good image of what HM is, but users more familiar with Harper's should be able to summarize in 1-3 words what is important/notable about it and add it instead of the question marks above. Paranoid 12:53, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Copyvio
I'm not going to post a copyvio on this, though I am going to post an RfC, as I think this could be salvaged by a rewrite by someone familiar with this publication. The current text borrows a tad too directly from [1] (http://www.harpers.org/HarpersHistory.html). == Cecropia | explains it all ® 00:47, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- You seem to be asking for a legal opinion. RfC is not the appropriate place for that -- you'll get plenty of armchair lawyers, but probably not anyone with actual legal experience. --Carnildo 04:14, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Well, actually no. IANAL but I've been involved in intellectual property issues in my work for years. The problem is that parts of the article are clearly copyvios, quoting big parts of the original verbatim and apparently without permission or attribution. But there is significant added material, and I'm trying to see if we can get agreement on a rewrite rather than throw the whole thing out. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:03, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- You still seem to be asking for a legal opinion, on whether or not everything since the edit that added the copyvio material is considered a "derivative work" of the copyvio. --Carnildo 06:19, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I have rewritten the text in response to the concerns Cecropia raised. -- Viajero 13:29, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
