Re: About 'Yaj~nam' (2) another suggestion

Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri (pkrishna@ARL.MIL)
Tue, 30 Jan 96 16:13:00 EST

Bapa Rao said, "I just wonder if a portion of the contribution shouldn't
go to the author directly.". I thought of saying something like that, when
I read the prior post by vElUri.

Without seriously disagreeing with the original prpposal, wouldn't it be
better to leave the entire matter of who gets benefitted to kArA himself?
He may decide to give part of it to BCT, or to another worthwhile cause
dear to himself.

A technical question. (No, I am not a lawyer. In fact I would gladly go
along with the Shakespearian dicta - "First kill all the lawyers").

Does the copyright to kArA's stories reside with him, or some publisher
who may or may not agree with the altruistic ideas of a bunch of
outcasts (pravAsAndhrulu) in a far-off land, who have taken a fancy
to this author, just 'cos he got an award?

Quite recently pAvani SAstri had to re-acquire the copy-rights to a
lot of his father's works, in the process of re-publishing all of
them in an integrated scheme.He must have gone through a lot of
trouble to convince some of them to give up this right.

Ramakrishna