what type of magazine articles would interest you that you rarely see?

[York1]

gregc

York1

Mike the lawyer, or other lawyers on this forum, could tell us the actual information.

 

i don't believe it's the same for all (modeling) magazines.

 

I think I'm looking at it from the side of the person submitting the article.  I would want the proof that the article was mine and it was not done earlier by someone else.

I can't find it now, but it seems that last year someone on this forum claimed that someone else submitted an article that they claimed was copied from their forum posts.  It may have been on the Trains side of the forum.  (I think I remember that -- at my age that's about the best I can do.)

[Overmod]

York1

I can't find it now, but it seems that last year someone on this forum claimed that someone else submitted an article that they claimed was copied from their forum posts.

It wasn't so much copied as plagiarized from a private blog... but the 'derivative' version was originally posted to one of the Trains Magazine forums as an 'hommage' to the original (a very good piece on railroading on part of the ex-PRR in 2040).  

Someone at the magazine apparently read the post, contacted the 'author', and apparently offered to print an expanded version as an article ... probably a paid article -- which Kalmbach took upon themselves to retitle 'railroading in 2040' to match the original blog-post title, and in which any credit to Don Oltmann was remarkably absent.  At first this just seemed like an attribution failure, since it had been clearly understood that the original was the inspiration ... and then Kalmbach abruptly took down the post, once the article saw print, and refused to credit Don for the original.  This did not meet with approval as even remotely ethical practice, and it still seems strange.

Magazines periodically repeat 'common' article topics over the years.  This may be less important as the years of posts, videos, and other collateral accrues online... but more and more of that is becoming monetized for the $6.99 per month whether or not you're a subscriber or have access to back issues.  That may make 'new' articles on older or timeless topics more relevant rather than less for those who remain only magazine subscribers using 'free' resources like the current forums (or perks their subscription entitles them to).

[gregc]

Overmod

Someone at the magazine apparently read the post, contacted the 'author', and apparently offered to print an expanded version -- which Kalmbach took upon themselves to retitle 'railroading in 2040' and in which any credit to Don Oltmann was remarkably absent.

if the magazine alters the submitted article, shouldn't the author review the change?

as i mentioned earlier, i was surprised that the description of how the circuit works was removed from the published article.

i hesitated to say even for typos, but at least in a technical article, an editor may think a technical term is a typo.