Royalties & copyright (WAS: Lot 49)

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Kevin Troy<kevin.troy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Considering that this "other IV" came out only in June, I'm trying to
> imagine the conversations the author must have had w/ his editors @
> Duke UP when he heard about P's IV....

The author's a friend of a friend, who recommended it to me as soon as
Pynchon's novel was announced (this reminds me, I THOUGHT i'd ordered
a copy ...).  I'm of the understanding that it simply wasn't an issue.
 On the one hand, titles can't be copyrighted here (though Harlan
Ellison, at least,  once managed to threaten his way into a de facto
monopoly on one anyway), and, on the other, given the snail's pace of,
esp., academic publishing, the other book could well have been in the,
uh, pipeline some time before its Pynchonian namesake ...

"Inherent Vice was several years in the making...."

http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-08-20/news/superstar-karen-carpenter-lucas-hilderbrand-irvine-youtube/1

http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4376-9