[Coco] CoCo Collection CD discontinued

[Frank Pittel]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:10:39PM -0700, Hex Star wrote:

> On 7/20/07, Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:

> >

> >

> >

> >Doesn't this fall under something like Ira's archive? What I mean is, if

> >the person compiling the archive doesn't wish for it to be sold /

> >distributed by someone else, shouldn't we just honor that?

> >

> >I mean, seriously, if you want your own archive, just go find the files

> >you want yourself outside of other's hard work. It's obviously available

> >somewhere out there to archive on your own time.

> >

> >I know this is a gray area here. But I think I'd rather play it on the

> >side of respecting those that we know and that are truly in the community.

> >

> >Just my wee thoughts. :)

> >

> >

> 

> Indeed this is a grey area, there is the respect side of things where the

> author has put a lot of work into the cd and thus deserves money for the cd.

> But then, what if he/she stops selling the cd? The cd really isn't filled

> with work originally done by the creator of the compilation but rather is a

> compilation of work by others and thus is filled with all kinds of different

> copyrights by different authors and with there may even be some works whose

> copyright is still enforced and thus should be on the compilation. But

> legally speaking I don't believe the author of the compilation has any real

> legal writes to protect the compilation because it is not his original work

> that is on the cd but rather an assortment of other people's work. It's like

> a linux live cd, people work hard to make distro's like linux and people can

> freely distribute the cd's. They can't sue people for distributing the cd's

> because it's a compilation of other people's work which is under various

> licenses, the cd cannot and is not ever covered by a license determined by

> the compilator.


If you believe that Roger doesn't own the rights to the "compilation"
you need to spend some money on a good lawyer. It's settled law.