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Subject:	Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:18:05 GMT
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hello all, My compliments to Orion and his efforts to make the MOTM contest more fair. But I do wonder why there is a need for this. Have there been doubtful submissions in the past? My biggest puzzle however is the copyight issue. Steve, in reply to Orion: > > - The raw DAT code will be kept completely confidential and will NOT be posted > > on the LDraw.org website or anywhere else unless permission from the current > > owner is obtained. > > I'm not keen on this, but I understand reasons for it. I'd say (generally) the > submitter should be the owner of copyright, or at least co-owner. > > Anyway, it'd very keen to allow viewers (voters) to get the LDR code, so they could > evaluate the model in as much detail as they want. Why would someone not be willing to share his modelling efforts? Why is he/she modelling in the first place? I do know that endless time and energy go into most models and it might be atleast a bit annoying to see somebody else getting credit for showing your model. But I think this comes with the territory. (in this case, the Internet) I for one don't believe in the 'copyright' concept. Nobody I know respects copyrights, including myself. (ok, hit me) I'd say that one of the conditions for submitting should be that the model becomes public. This might result in less models being submitted, so be it. I think this would be a minor effect as I can't think of any reason for not sharing our models. best regards.

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		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
(...) While I understand the desire to have all models publicly available, I respect the authors desire to keep his/her efforts out of the public domain. A great analogy of this is that you can go a museum and look at an exhibit, you can even take (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
--snip-- (...) BEFORE this topic went public, there was discussion (within LDraw) about submitions from indiviudals that might later on want to make the models commercially avaliable. By submitting their LDraw files and making them public their (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)

		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
(...) Models can be copyrighted for different reasons, like: 1. They are commissioned commercially 2. They are sold by the creator 3. They belong to a larger copyrighted work (i.e. a book) While I respect copyrights (it comes with the age, it (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
(...) Just to point out - this discussion is only about the Model of the Month. The Scene of the Month contest would not be change. This would help sharpen focus of MOTM on the actual LDraw model, and SOTM would focus on composition, rendering (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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