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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:17:23 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> 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.
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 to be by choice.
>
> -Orion
Kevin
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