{"id":21455,"date":"2013-08-02T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2013-08-02T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:47:45","slug":"omni-rises-from-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/omni-rises-from-the-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Omni<\/em> rises from the ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>BoingBoing<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/08\/02\/omni.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a> talks about the relaunch of <em>Omni<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, I posed the question here, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/07\/09\/who-owns-omni.html\" target=\"_blank\">Who Owns <em>Omni<\/em>?<\/a>&#8220;, about the beloved, defunct magazine of the future created and run by Kathy Keeton with significant involvement by her husband Bob Guccione, the founder of <em>Penthouse<\/em>. The best answer I was able to come up with after talking to past <em>Omni<\/em> editors and writers, contacting potential current copyright owners, and researching Guccione&#8217;s personal bankruptcy and General Media&#8217;s more complicated bond default was: nobody.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of the authors, photographers, and artists whose work appeared in the magazine had signed contracts that granted only short-term rights. The staff writing and other work for hire \u2014 owned by the magazine itself \u2014 was relatively minimal, and the owner of those rights is to my best efforts currently still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, however, <em>Omni<\/em> will be reborn. Not the original, but <em>Omni Reboot<\/em>: a new online publication that takes its inspiration and direction from the magazine that so many of us grew up on and loved. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of <em>Omni<\/em> (I preferred <em>Analog<\/em>), I&#8217;m happy to see the old property being revived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At BoingBoing, Glenn Fleishman talks about the relaunch of Omni magazine: A few weeks ago, I posed the question here, &#8220;Who Owns Omni?&#8220;, about the beloved, defunct magazine of the future created and run by Kathy Keeton with significant involvement by her husband Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse. The best answer I was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[477,85],"class_list":["post-21455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-magazines","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21456,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions\/21456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}