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Mike P (02-07-2001 20:58):
John--sorry to have to interject a negative note here--but as someone who has had articles published that were entirely my own creation, I have a problem with what Roccus is doing here.
I don't mind sharing information with anyone out of the goodness of my heart, that'll help that person become a better fisherman. But I have a big problem with feeding ideas to a guy that is going to publish them under his name, as his own work, and collect a check for it. Unless Roccus intends to give about 50 people credit as "contributors" to his article--which even if he did, OTW wouldn't publish because it would waste ad space.
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I understand the issue you raise and I guess in one sense it has merit, but another way of looking at it is that there are thousands of tips, tricks and ideas out there that none of us in our lifetime would be likely to come up with through individual personal contacts & conversations. Seems to me a lot of people are going to read and learn about what other fishermen are doing to fool the fish. When/if you read the article, I think it'll will be clear to everyone reading it that these are not MY ideas but came from a whole bunch of people. I've freely given tips, ideas, interviews & so forth to other writers often & I guess Ill keep on doing it in the future. I know they're getting paid for an article but, what the heck, as you ought to know if you're writing regularly for fishing magazines, this is a tough dollar and none of us are getting rich...well, maybe a couple of publishers. I guess we just see it differently, Mike.
Say, why is everybody calling me John? Is that posted someplace? My name is Jerry Vovcsko...I thought that's on my signature...let me know if John slipped in there somewhere.
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