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From: wperko@ix.netcom.com (Walt Perko)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:27:18 GMT
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In <346ia2$rkk@nyx10.cs.du.edu> scohn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Seth Cohn) writes:
>
>In article <345su6$g4s@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>,
>Walt Perko <wperko@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>That's the whole ball of wax! If the .WAD is posted all over the world
>>giving it away for free to any and all, then there is no way possible to
>>collect from the sales of a CD-ROM which is simply a library of many .WAD's
>>that are freeware.
>>
>>I would doubt that even if every .WAD author tried to pool their money and
>>efforts, they couldn't even get a case into a court or a settlement from
>>the CD-ROM author.
>>
>>It is just not feasable to do so... no lawyer worth anything would even
>>want to bother with the case because it doesn't even hint on any copyright
>>violations or ethical missuse of intellectual properties.
>>
>>BTW, many CD-ROM's like this do not make all that much money anyway. It
>>is hardly worth shareing the profits in many cases unless the CD-ROM becomes
>>the defacto standard of the industry and has exclusive sales.
>
>Walt, you're wrong. Plain and simple. Stop defending yourself (since you
>ARE a publisher of net.stuff, you REALLY aren't unbiased...
>
>>
>>--
>>Walt Perko wperko@ix.netcom.com Order one or both CD-ROM's today!
>>P.O. Box 640608 "10,000 Sounds & Songs" vol.0 $25
>>San Francisco, CA. 94164-0608 "MegaMODMadNess" vol.1 $40
>
>Hmm, Any MOD authors out there looking for some money? If Walt published
>your MOD, and you haven't given him rights to do so: find a lawyer, a GOOD one.
>
>Again, AGAIN AGAIN, READ THE COPYRIGHT FAQ!!!!!
>
>Seth
>(just to repeat: WAD authors, contact me if you want to join a legal suit
>against CD pubs... You wouldn't be alone... even ID is pissed at many of them
>for published copywritten levels.)
>
>
>
Seth, you still don't get it, do you. Don't you think? Don't you?
The copyright laws are to protect the revenue value of a product. If anybody
who originates a product and places it in the public domain, i.e., Internet,
Public Access BBS's, Shareware floppies, a magazine, then that person or
corporation cannot attempt to block distribution of that product simply because
it now appears on a CD-ROM.
If however, somebody wrote a .WAD and was selling it, using the Internet to
send it to customers and somebody else posted in the public domain. Then the
originator has cause for dispute.
When you show me a .WAD CD-ROM or sales of a .MOD that appears on my CD-ROM by
the originator or an agent thereof, then I will remove the .MOD, and the .WAD
author may have cause for dispute with the WAD CD-ROM author.
BTW, I have it in writing from very nearly all the .MOD authors for all the
music on my CD-ROM "MegaMODMadNess". Those who sent me their signed authorizations
will get a FREE CD-ROM at the very least. But, having that permission means I
can sell this CD-ROM in bundle projects for U.S.$0.50 ea. and maybe make enough
money to send to the authors too! This is the plan.
Although there may be many CD-ROM author's out there who simply pocket the money,
I can't help but think that $10 - $40 CD-ROM's are not making anybody rich anyway.
If you have a larger CD-ROM factory like Walnut Creek CD-ROM, full of shareware
taken from the Internet and other places, I can see them making a nice living
and expanding, but for the amount of competition - other's are making better
shareware CD-ROM's now-and-again so Walnut Creek is not getting so rich either.
By expanding their catalog and advertising I expect Walnut Creek CD-ROM to eventually
make it big-time, but this may take a few more years.
I hope I may follow a little bit smaller with my two CD-ROM's ("10,000 Sounds & Songs"
of the Digital Data Archives vol.0 and "MegaMODMadNess" vol.1 of the Digital Data
Archives.)
Ya'll should be glad I still haven't produced an Audio CD-ROM of me play'n guitar
and sing'n.
--
Walt Perko wperko@ix.netcom.com Order one or both CD-ROM's today!
P.O. Box 640608 "10,000 Sounds & Songs" vol.0 $25
San Francisco, CA. 94164-0608 "MegaMODMadNess" vol.1 $40