[Coco] RE: Copyright on Rainbow Magazine

[David Grimmel]

You might want to check out the archives for October, there was a big discussion with Michael J Harwood about the project. As far as I know, he holds the right to the project....
Starting here... http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2007-October/032554.html

Dave




>You might be right, but the fact remains that I signed away my right to that 
>software to Falsoft, Inc. What I would really like is to have all of the 
>Rainbow products released into the public domain. They've served >their 
>commercial purpose and I don't see further value, except as >collector's 
>items. 

>In looking for Lonnie Falk, I found what many folks on this list probably 
>already know: he passed away in 2006. That's truly a shame, as he was a 
>huge influence on probably most everybody on this list. 

>Does anybody know his wife, Willo? She still appears to live at the same 
>address. If I were there, I'd drop by. But I would hate to call out of the 
>blue. She doesn't know me from Adam. 

>His daughter, Wendy MacGreggor, was living in Chicago and a little Googling 
>suggests that she might be working here now: 
>http://www.secondharvest.org/about_us/national_staff.html 

>Seeing the effort to convert the printed magazine into scanned pages, etc., 
>really suggests we ought to try to find out the status of this. If 
>Falsoft's assets were sold, we might need to know that. If the company was 
>just closed and no longer in existence, then perhaps there is no owner to 
>assert a copyright. 

>Paul