Re: [Amc-list] Ownership of AMC Documentation

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Archimedes wrote:
> Matt Haas said:
> 
> 
>> You mean like the one at http://www.amcyclopedia.org/?
> 
> 
> You know, I appreciate the effort put into some of these things, but on the 
> other hand, I'd be more willing to contribute to that site were there not 
> an attempt to claim copyright on the information.
> 
> For instance: the list of AMC dealers.  I know that list was built off of 
> previously published lists (for instance, I have a list my local AMC dealer 
> printed off for me back in 1981).  Yet, the list published on AMCyclopedia 
> claims copyright and restricts how it can be used elsewhere.
> 
> If I contribute to the amcyclopedia list of dealers, my contribution 
> apparently becomes the property of Farna Systems.  I'm pretty sure I 
> contributed "Pence-Briggs Rambler" to the Richmond, VA listings -- why 
> would that that now be copyrighted by Farna?
> 
> Eddie Stakes also has a list of AMC dealerships.
> 
>          http://planethoustonamx.com/bodyAMC.htm
> 
> I don't see that copyright is claimed on it.  Why would there be?  That 
> list is almost identical to the list I was given by my AMC dealer.
> 
> WikiPedia is rapidly being filled in with AMC information, and it's all 
> public domain.  So is www.AMCArchives.org .  I already put up one page there:
> 
>          http://www.amcarchives.org/index.php/Wheels
> 
> Now, if www.AMCArchives.org were to copyright what I've written, I wouldn't 
> bother.
> 
> OK, I'm off my soapbox.
> 
> -- Marc

Marc,

To the best of my knowledge (and I just went and looked), those are the 
only pages that have a copyright notice on them and that *may* be a 
relic from when we first started the site (I seem to recall there was a 
big to-do about the copyright statement that was on it originally* for a 
very short period of time). Frank Swygert originally posted the dealer 
list pre-site crash a couple of years ago and I used what I had 
available to put the site back together (which is also why there is no 
part 1 listed). I will leave the status of those pages up to Frank.

*For those who don't recall, there was a copyright statement on it that 
was intended to prevent someone from downloading the site contents and 
publishing them for-profit. There was a lot of back and forth on the 
verbiage and various types of licenses were offered as alternatives 
(Marc, I believe you even offered an example or two). In the end, we 
took the copyright notice off the site.

Matt

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