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From: Gildas Bourdais <GBourdais@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:35:45 EDT
Fwd Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:26:08 -0400
Subject: Re: IHEDN Report


>From: Henny van der Pluijm <hvdp@worldonline.nl>
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 02:50:52 +0200 (MET DST)
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: IHEDN Report

>Dear Gildas,

>With the utmost respect for the group of French top army officials
>that created the report, I don't think they understand much about
>the internet or about selling hard copy for that matter. If they
>want to sell the report the best thing for them to do is to produce
>a copy of the report themselves and post it on the internet. Along
>with a guideline of how to order the full text.

I hope that, once VSD will have sold most of its stock (I
gathered that they printed 70,000 copies, and it is selling very
well now in France in spite of utter mediatic silence), they
will decide on some way to put it on the Internet. I suggest
here that, if FUFOR translates it, they make an agreement with
the author's group COMETA and the publisher VSD, tu put it on
the Net.

As for the summary I intend to write, I know I don't need an
authorization for that, but I agree to  submit it for approval
(actually I proposed that !) in order to give it more weight.

This being said, I want to warn that many people may be
disapointed by the contents if they are hoping for sensational
revelations. On the contrary, it is classical study, which does
bring information on the organization of UFO studies in France.
The big point is who signed it : "top brass" as you say !

Best regards
Gildas Bourdais





Since they are not doing that the UFO community, and any other
interested group for that matter, will for the most part rely on
second hand accounts of the content of this report and on
summaries made by persons not belonging to the group. Especially
econd hand accounts could easily give a distorted image of the
content of the text.

For your information, a text can be copyrighted by the
author(s), but a summary of the same text made by other persons
is not covered by that copyright. In other words, you are free
to post your own summary of the text without permission from
COMETA. This is covered by the right of freedom of publication.
They can sue whatever they like, but their demands will not hold
up in court.

The reason that I am advising you about this is that I find it
important that the main ingredients of the text come available
to a large public.