[Coco] Rainbow on Disc Project

[Michael Wayne Harwood]

I looked over the contract one more time and found a clause I had 
overlooked that states that Lonnie's heirs are also bound by the 
contract.  It also state that sixty days advance notice must be given 
(by either party) of the cancellation of the agreement.  So the worst 
case scenario is that if the project were completed and started to sell 
the current owner could cancel the agreement and there would be a sixty 
day "going out of business" sale.

I am willing to keep the agreement in place and send the resources to a 
few volunteers to complete the project.  Once completed I will need to 
be in charge of making sure the finished product adheres to the terms of 
the agreement (e.g. certain specific copyright notices Lonnie 
stipulated, not allowing sales to Thailand and a few other places, etc) 
as well as hunting down the current copyright holder(s) to remit payment 
per the terms of the contract.

Derek wrote:
> Since it looks like the project is now dead in the water at what point does it become ok to have coco community members scan the Rainbow Magazines and have them for anyone to download in .PDF format? The company that published is long out of business, the copyright holder has passed away and as far as I can see scanning them in to archive  would have no financial effect on anyone. 
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> I know this question may stir up some emotion and thats not the purpose in my asking.  If the rainbow on Disk  project dies do we as a community never archive the Rainbow magazines which was one of the main contributers to the CoCo for nearly 15 years? There are a few members of the community who have disk and tape images of Rainbow on Disk and Tape on their web sites (I for one am thankful to have these available.) How is having those Rainbow disk and tape images archived and up for download any different than having the Magazines in .PDF format? I am not talking about selling the Rainbow Magazines PDF's but having them up freely for anyone who wants them. I have a couple of years complete in my Rainbow Magazine collection and I would be willing to scan what I have in if it becomes a community effort.
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> Again I am not asking to cause trouble but at this point I do feel it's a valid question that should be addressed by the coco community.
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> Derek 
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