Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) is an off the cuff publication produced by three guys: David Nelson, Fritz Swanson and Morgan Johnson. The idea for the publication, its design and all content not otherwise indicated is their creation and therefore, one would suppose, copyrighted (can that be a verb?) to them. For content with a byline, all rights remain with the author except First North American Digital Serial and Archive rights, which I just made up because there are no solid governing publication rights that deal exclusively with digital content. Some ideas have been put forward, but nothing is standard, so the basic feeling of this publication is that we have the right to publish a piece and to keep it in our archives for reading and enjoying within the confines of this journal. We do not have the right to reprint any of these pieces in any other format without some sort of okay from the author. We'd like to put together print versions of the material herein, but we'll ask the authors if they think that is cool before we go ahead with any of it. On the issue of images that appear in this publication... most of the stuff comes from a private collection of nineteenth century engravings and old family photographs, so that stuff is clear. There are a few things that come from NASA, and because no endorsement is real or implied, they are cool. The rest come from little widgets of this and that stolen from across the web. For those I say this: 1. They are usually some small portion of the original work and 2. They are usually in some form of collage or in other ways altered and put to a new use which in some way comments directly on their past meaning. While it is a broad defense, I think I will claim fair use on just about the lot of it, putting it into a sort of Pop Art category of free expression. If there is a certain image which you are the copyright holder on and you have a beef, email the Almanac(k) at editors@poormojo.org with your specific beef and we'll work something out. We're handshake and good word sorts of guys who just want to move forward with cool projects. We're poor. We only mean well. And that's all we, I, the magazine has to say about that.
-Fritz Swanson and PMjA (c) 2000-2001, 2004