User talk:Jean Henry Mead

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[edit] Copyright status of text you've copied from your book

Hi. I noticed that you (I take it you are the same Jean Henry Mead that wrote the book?) copied an excerpt from one of your books into the Elsa Spear Byron article. Are you the copyright holder, or is the publisher? If it's the latter, do you have permission from the publisher to copy excerpts into Wikipedia? If you don't have either copyright or permission, the excerpts will have to be removed. I'm sure you'll understand, we have to be careful about copyright issues. --greenrd 21:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

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Greenrd: I've been a professional writer since 1968 and I own the copyrights to all my books. The only time a writer does not own the copyrights to his/her books is when it's a "work for hire." That means that a writer is hired to write under a house name for a series of books, such as an adult Western series. All articles I contribute to the wikipedia are from interviews conducted exclusively by me and I own the copyrights to all of them. --User:JeanHenryMead 7 April 2007(MST)