On 12/19, Arch said:
"The point I have been trying to make about the training films is that what
we write is being seen by a lot more people than we realize. Big
corporations have for years had the services of clipping organizations.
They monitor the papers and magazines and send them clippings that
their name appears in. I have a real gut feeling that there must be the
same service on the Internet by now. We are not sitting around the
campfire here we are broadcasting to the whole world. That must be taken
into Considerations when we talk. A few Xerox copies around the campfire
is not what we do here. We are talking to the world here!! I will bet that
somebody at Xerox will see this post in the morning. Somebody at GM will
too. We are all now worldwide players not just campfire buddies."
My .02=A2 on this subject:
Since there are so many contributors to the web (like us), copyright
holders must restrict their legal challenges to the big players with the
deep pockets who are profiting from the infringements. After all, isn't
protecting copyrights all about insuring who profits from whatever has been
coprighted?
I doubt GM (or Cinnabar) would feel threatened unless they felt they were
losing income AND losing it to entities having sufficient attachable assets
to warrant their effort. How could making these historic training films
available to the net be considered as taking profit away from the
copyright's holder? In fact, distributing the films should be looked upon
as to there benefit as such would promote repair with the parts they sell.
Taking this issue a step further, I'd like to see a web site set up just
for historical articles, pics & movies. Any takers?
Dave (& Dege), '76 Royale, Santa Barbara, CA
(often late responses due to "Digest" subsctription)
