Less Fun, Fewer Games for Georgia Inmates: Female Inmates
Congratulations to the author, Matt Winkeljohn, for his extensive research and excellent work in preparing these articles.
Earlier, we posted the report here for your convenince, however, the Atlanta Journal Constitution saw it otherwise. Please read
our correspondence with them below. Bottom line, they wanted us to pay them $200 a year to display the article after our site and myself were major contributors to their article. Imagine a few expletives here !!!!!.
Warning to US
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:18:42 -0400
From: jryan@ajc.com
To: gpolson@strengthtech.com
Subject: Web site reprint permission
To whom it may concern:
It has come to our attention that your web site has produced all or
virtually all of an article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution own the copyright to this article, and
while you may not be aware of it, the reproduction of the article without
our permission violates copyright law. The Journal-Constitution would be
pleased to consider granting your organization permission to continue
displaying the article. Obtaining permission involves the payment of a
small fee and the inclusion of some simple prescribed language giving
source credit to the Journal-Constitution. If you would like to obtain
permission, please fax a letter to 404-614-2701.
If you do not want to obtain permission, we ask that you remove the article
from your web site immediately, and contact me promptly to let me know that
you have done so. You may contact me at 404-582-7561 or jryan@ajc.com.
If you have received this letter in error, and have already obtained
reprint permission, we do apologize. Please fax me a copy of your invoice
and reprint permission form to 404-614-2701 so we may correct our records.
We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Ryan
My Response
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:20:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gary Polson
To: jryan@ajc.com
Subject: Re: Web site reprint permission
On Mon, 31 May 1999 jryan@ajc.com wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
>
> It has come to our attention that your web site has produced all or
> virtually all of an article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hello!
I would like to explain the situation in which the article
was reprinted. We run an educational web site on the issue
of weight lifting in prisons.
http://www.strengthtech.com
You will note the article in question,
http://www.strengthtech.com/correct/issues/mediais/ajc/ajc.htm
Included a link to your web site and was properly referenced.
My non-profit web site was actually extensively used by
Mr. Winkeljohn in preparation of the article and I also was
personally interviewed. A great deal of information was
supplied to AJC at no charge.
We also called national attention to this article at the
1998 National Correctional Recreation Assoc Convention,
just prior to its printing. We encouraged all present to
try to obtain a copy of the Sunday AJC.
We try to provide access to legislation and media coverage
of the issue of lifting in prisons. When a publisher such
a you archives the
text and charges for access, we have seen many eventually
stop providing access even for a fee (the article is
permanently lost). Also, our readers
are usually very reluctant to try to find their way through
your system, setup and account, and order the article.
In the interest of trying to get them to read it, we
provided a copy (but we did encourage them to read the one
from your site first).
We do this on a totally non-profit basis and have
invested thousands of man hours in the website.
Would you please consider some method by which we could
come in compliance without being charged a fee.
Thank you for your assistance!
gary polson
strength tech
stillwater ok
Their Final Response
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:45:11 -0400
From: jryan@ajc.com
To: Gary Polson
Subject: Re: Web site reprint permission
Thank you for your prompt reply and explanation. To protect the integrity
of our newspaper, we must keep track of organizations and individuals that
reprint our material, thus we require that reprint permission must always
be obtained prior to distribution.
At this time, reprint permission fees are waived for only educational
institutions. All non-profit organizations are charged the same fee. For
web reprint permission, the fee for non-profits is $50/per article for the
period of one year. If you would like to continue displaying the four AJC
articles on your site, please mail a check for $200 to:
Stacks Information Service
P.O. Box 4689
Atlanta, GA 30302
If you choose not to pay, please take the articles down within the next 30
days, and message me to let me know that you have done so. You may cite
the articles and link to our Stacks archive service at no charge. While
the archive does charge for full-text viewing, I can assure you that the
articles will not be permanently lost, but will remain in the archive
forever. The web address is : http://stacks.ajc.com
Please let me know if you have any questions by e-mailing me or calling
404-582-7561.
Thank you very much,
Jennifer Ryan
News Research
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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