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Dear colleagues:

	Like you I have been solicited to include a paper in a collection
on knowledge representation to be edited by Ron Brachman and Hector
Levesque.  The actual publisher is not stated in the letter or in the
proposed contract, but Ron informs me it is an affiliate of Henry
Kaufman's enterprises run by one Mike Morgan.

	In my opinion one of the clauses in the proposed contract is
a swindle.  Namely, for no money at all, they are given the exclusive
right to include the piece in a collective work.  This means, for example,
if you want to include the piece in a collection of your own, you will
have to pay them.

	I have had telephone conversations with Brachman, Kaufman and
Morgan about the matter.  Morgan is basically in charge, and I got
answers from him that seem to me evasive.
Therefore, I recommend that no-one sign the release, and that if you
have already signed, send a letter revoking the permission.

	At the very least we should hold out for dropping that clause.

	Incidentally, they plan to pay copyright holders but not authors.
No one of us can possibly get rich off such permissions, but I would like
to get for myself as much as they pay the various copyright holders.

	If you do anything along these lines, I would appreciate knowing
about it.

Sincerely,