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- Exclusives on CDs and your rights:
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- Many people have asked about the idea behind exclusive rights to
- certain demos and productions. The Exclusive CDROM rights are to
- protect Assembly 95 cdrom from those companies that clearly
- protect copyright violations. It is thus also to protect your
- interests as the person who has copyrights to the product.
- These violating companies publish your works on a cd without any
- permissions and make a lot of money without giving you nothing.
- Now, you might think it is ok, and as long as you think it is ok,
- then you should put text "This is freeware" into your production.
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- What does the exclusive then mean? It means that we only get the
- right to publish your product on a CDrom, then we pay you royalties
- from the net income. This is a good way to support the scene and
- give the people little more than just plain prizes. We don't mean
- to restict the spreadability of your products in any ways. Keep
- in mind that the exclusive is only for CDROM distribution, and
- if you feel that you want to make a cd with your own production in it,
- no problem. We only want to protect the products from abuse that
- has been going on for a long time.
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- We suggest that you add the following text to your product
- information if you want your product to be legally protected:
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- This material is not freeware. You are allowed to copy it without
- restrictions for non-commercial use.
- No payment of any kind may be charged for this product or any
- combination of products or services including this product without
- our authorization and official written license.
- Commercial use, especially the industrial manufacturing on any
- data storage media and their distribution without the expressed
- permission of the producer, is strictly prohibited.
- This program or the data files contained herein may not be altered
- or modified without the permission of the author.
- You take full responsibility for the operation of this software
- and any conssequences thereof. We the creators cannot accept
- liability for damages or failures arising from the use of this
- software.
-
- (note: this is the text YOU add, and the word "our" means you,
- the author of this product. You might want to modify this file,
- it is ok, but keep the idea alive thou... for example, you have
- to change some stuff if you put this to musics for example).
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- In Assembly '95, you don't have to give any exclusives if you feel
- you don't want to do it. We urge you to consider that thou. By
- granting us the exclusives, you get the royalties from the possibly
- income we get from the exclusive.
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- Some discussion about the rumors
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- Discussion? There has been a lot of discussion on the internet about
- the CDroms and about companies that violate your rights as an author.
- We have our goals in protecting the scene from this abuse, as it has
- been pretty obvious and in large quantity also.
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- Then there has been a question of monetary gain of Assembly Organizing.
- Assembly '95 is at the moment a +-0 party: ie, all the money has been
- budgeted to organizing the party. For some people, it is hard to
- understand that a fair center costs A LOT (Helsinki Fair Center is
- not located in some distant city that is in middle of nowhere :),
- but it is easy to yell out that we make big profits. For those people
- I would like to give few phone numbers to call around and ask for the
- price of such an event as Assembly '95.. you would be quite surprised.
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- Our objective is to organize best parties ever, and the CDrom income
- makes it possible... Without that, Assembly ticket would cost
- around 300 FIM if you calculate all the expenses per party visitor.
- We even hope to lower the price of the ticket next year. And to
- those people who say "if party is this expensive to organize, it is
- badly organized"... well, on the contrary, that shows it has been
- organized with care and heart. We offer a lot for Assembly '95
- visitor.
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- Assembly '95 relies heavily on the sponsors. That makes the event
- commercial in a sense that we ofcourse need to give something back
- to a company that wants to sponsor the scene in this way. For some
- people, some of the rules seem to some people with narrow vision
- that they are only for commercial purposes. I would like to say that
- is not the case. Ofcourse, as a byproduct these rules have also
- commercial factors (but keep in mind that these factors work FOR
- the scene, not against it). We intend to go public with demos, the
- culture behind them and the people who make them. We have organized
- interviews to magazines where young computer wizzes can present
- the idea of "scene" and demos to all people. If you look at the rules
- with this idea in mind, we hope you to see the ideas that we have.
- The more compatible the products are, the more people they reach,
- the easier it is to bring the new culture to the public knowledge.
- And who knows if at some state, demomakers are recognized artists
- who make their living by coding demos... interesting option? :)
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