[overflow] Re: [MASSFILC] Re: Re: Copyrights (by way of Tom Smithgot his wish...)

[Gary McGath <gmcgath@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:19 AM -0400 4/17/01, Lee Gold wrote:

>Then again there's "The Chemist's Drinking Song" aka
>"Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde."  Mudcat credits this to
>Isaac Asimov, which is WRONG, although the Good Doctor did
>sort of set the song off by observing in an F&SF column
>that was later collected in an anthology of his articles
>that the chemical's name scanned to the tune of "The Irish
>Washerwoman."  But the rest of the song was written by
>Jack Carroll and appears in NESFA 2, without (if I recall
>correctly) crediting Asimov, which is also WRONG.

I can't find a copy of the first edition of NESFA 2 right now.  But the
second edition, which I edited, has the notation "Inspired by Isaac
Asimov's 'You, Too, Can Speak Gaelic.'"  I think the first edition credited
Asimov without naming the article, but my recollection is vague.

Lee, if you're going to say in capital letters on two mailing lists that
something is WRONG, could you please check the facts first? Thanks.

       Gary McGath
       gmcgath@shore.net
       http://www.shore.net/~gmcgath/