[Coco] Regarding Copyright and the Rainbow Magazine

[George Ramsower]

 I believe an index of the contents of the magazines would not be part of 
the copyright that protects the magazines. An index of all the magazines is 
an original work and is not a copy of any material in those magazines.
 I am curious to see a  copy of your query to Lonnie posted here would 
answer any questions we may have as to how you worded your question to him 
on this matter.

 According to this email, I cannot make a list of magazines that were 
published during those years..
 The database he was talking about is only a list of articles and whatever, 
without the content, if I understand his message correctly.

 Anyone else have an idea on this?

George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Wayne Harwood" <michael at musicheadproductions.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: [Coco] Regarding Copyright and the Rainbow Magazine


>> I believe I can (hopefully at no cost) set up an online, searchable,
>> indexable database. Admin accounts could be given to allow data to be
>> added as it becomes available. Give me a few days to set up a demo.
>
> I emailed Lonnie concerning your database idea and this is his reply:
>
>  ANYTHING and EVERYTHING published by Falsoft carries a copyright. No one
>  can generate anything in any way from any of that material without
>  violating the copyright. The gentleman to whom you refer would be
>  violating our ownership of the copyright by re-publishing it in any way
>  -- whether he OCRs it, types it in by hand or whatever.
>
>  I think people need to understand we paid to have this material come into
>  being: whether we paid staff to do it, paid third party people for it
>  (such as the indexes) or whatever. When they bought a copy of the
>  publication, they bought a license to use it; but not to distribute it to
>  someone else. They simply do not have the right to take something we paid
>  for and give it away or re-sell it to the known world. Please advise this
>  guy that he simply cannot do it and, honestly, the more widely he
>  circulates anything illegally, the more a court would award us for that
>  copyright violation.
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael Harwood
>
>
>
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