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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:03:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jan Folkersma wrote:
> 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:
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> > > - 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.
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> 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.
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 pictures to remember your visit, but you can't take the display pieces home
with you when you leave.
-Orion
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