[Coco] CoCo Collection CD discontinued

[Hex Star]

On 7/20/07, Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Just my wee thoughts. :)
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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.