[Coco] Re: Regarding Copyright and the Rainbow Magazine

[farna at att.net]

Bob, you'll never please everyone! No matter how you approach things someone will disagree. Take everything as "suggestions" then decide what you think is best and tell everyone that's the way it's going to be. If someone comes up with a better suggestion (in YOUR opinion -- you're doing most of the work!) you can always change your mind. 

You'll have to publish an index to some degree if the set is to be broken up into multiple disks. How would I know which disks I want? Volume 1-3 doesn't help a bit. Besides, there is a list of what's in each issue on the order page for back issues anyway. A copy of that would be sufficient as an index, and since it's already on the web, you can just link to that from your site, and maybe mirror the order site. 

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Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Robert Emery <theother_bob at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Regarding Copyright and the Rainbow Magazine
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> > Though I wish that this were in
> > the public domain or available for free I will do my best to abide by the
> > agreement Lonnie and I have entered into.
> 
> Wow, I didn't mean to cause such a blowup... I understand everyone's point of
> view, and point out the following:
> 
> 1) I never said I was going public with anything... including the publicly
> available data that is already on the web, forever archived for everyone except
> Lonnie's benefit. I simply wanted to offer a "better" solution than offering a
> pdf of something that's already going to be included in the pdfs.
> 
> 2) Based on Lonnies replies, I still see room for this to fit into the original
> agreement. 
>    a)If I produce an online database based on OCR, it could be secured and
>      access given only to those who purchased the archive. Information on
>      accessing the data could be included as part of your package. This does
>      not give anyone anything they didn't already pay for.
>    b)Regardless of that, even Lonnie said (in his 2nd reply) that manually
>      generated list would not infringe his copyright. So I *could* choose to
>      make a public database that allows individual magazine owners to enter
>      their own index data.*
> 
> 3) Such a databse, if publicly available, would only serve to increase sales.
> Someone is more likely to buy the Rainbow archive if they know [that/where]
> they can find exactly what they're looing for. A database could only benefit
> the community as a whole.
> 
> * I want to include more detail than the Rainbow index offers anyway, such as
> keyword searches for Q&A columns. Page numbers and dates are not copyrightable,
> so at most, as the man himself pointed out, article titles would be copied, and
> even LF said that would be silly to pursue.
> 
> Let's keep our heads about us and not go blowing things out of proportion. Try
> to keep the politics to a minimum and just work towards benefiting the
> community.
> 
> cheers, and keep up the great work Michael,
> Bob Emery
>