[SCA-AE] This Month's Æstel

[Rich G]

>   Perhaps we could ask for the good gentles who supplied said comics to 
>allow for them to be posted so that all who wish it can read them at their 
>leisure?


It's not quite that simple, Eirik. There are legal requirements that 
prohibit us from doing so.

1) The release forms we get for various items sometimes specify how they can 
be distributed. Often they are for one-time publication use only and cannot 
be distributed online.
2) Since the Æstel (and any other kingdom newsletter) requires a 
subscription fee, an online adaptation (either on a website, mailing list or 
private email) must have similar financial controls placed on it as per 
Corpora. If a local newsletter is free, for example, then it can be released 
online freely. We can't do that with the Æstel.

If the copyright holder of the comics wish to post them, they are, of 
course, free to do so in whatever manner they wish, wherever they wish using 
their own resources. We can't nor would it be particularly fair to them for 
us to ask them to.


Rich Goranson (Lord Stephan Calvert deGrey)
Amherst, NY, USA (Barony of the Rhydderich Hael, Æthelmearc)
Deputy Kingdom Chronicler