[Coco] Copyright on Rainbow Magazine

[Paul E. Jones]

Dave,

What this tells me is that Lonnie was interested in maintaining some rights
and control in the distribution of the work.  I never saw the original legal
document Michael had, but I assume that the "non-transferrable" clause meant
it could not be transferred from Michael to somebody else.  In any case, it
certainly strongly suggests Lonnie did not simply want anybody to reproduce
a program or (worse) the whole magazine without some kind of royalty
arrangement.

In any case, Falsoft's number is disconnected.  I called Lonnie's home
number and left a voicemail.  Perhaps somebody will give me a call back.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of David Grimmel
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:24 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] RE: Copyright on Rainbow Magazine
> 
> 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
> 
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