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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:31:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dan Boger wrote:
> > > If someone chooses not to participate in the contest because they
> > > can't/won't release the DAT, what's the loss for LDraw?
> > 
> > The loss is the chance for us to see the creative effort of another and possibly
> > be inspired by it.  The fact that this has become the central issue  of my
> > proposed changes flabbergasts me.  It takes absolutly no effort on our part to
> > honor an author's desire to keep the source private.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> -Tim

Let's please make this explicitly clear: It is then all right to use the contest
as a means to advertise a commercial model or a commercial product based on the
model? This is a glaring pitfall if sources are not requested. I thought it
would be inelegant and immoral to submit the models I authored for, say, the
Dark Side Creatures book published by Syngress (which the contest audience would
have to buy if they wanted to get the step-by-step instructions). Please correct
me if that is not the case, because I still think it is.

Cheers



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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) If the model has commercial ties before or during the contest then I might (note the word might) have a problem with the submission. In my opinion, the reasoning behind an author's decision to keep the source private is irrelevent and not the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) Agreed. -Tim (23 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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