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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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Date: 
Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:01:26 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jan Folkersma wrote:
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.

I think this analogy is not so great. The reason why
we can't take things home from a museum is that things
there are unique and in a museum more people can come
see it.
In the virtual world it's rather the other way around:
things are not unique, copies are indentical to the
original, and if more people 'take them with them',
the more it will be seen.
Please understand, I don't want this discussion to
be focussed on this copyright vs. public issue. I do
respect all efforts to make any contest fair.

I still would like to respect the author's choice not to have the raw DAT code
posted, it is after all his/her property.

-Orion



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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) I agree (strongly) with Orion here. While I'd love to have copies of other people's LDraw files when voting for the contest, ultimately the decision to make the source of a model public should remain up to the author. -Tim (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) I agree whole heartedly with Orion on this one. Just because I submit a model for a contest, should not mean that I give up ownership of the model. I'm pretty sure that I would give away the DATs for any models that I submit, but I'd like that (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) I think this analogy is not so great. The reason why we can't take things home from a museum is that things there are unique and in a museum more people can come see it. In the virtual world it's rather the other way around: things are not (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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