Re: Who wins? (we all could)

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John Frost (frost@netcom.com)
Tue, 16 May 1995 13:11:24 -0700 (PDT)

I'd like to voice my support for the 'all proceeds go to charity' thread.
Perhaps we could even expand the idea to include 'licensing' our FAQs IFF
the publisher donates a certain percentage of the sales (say 5% or so) to
Internet Archival of the Latest Version of the FAQs. THat would take care
of the the Walnut-Creek dilemma. (ie, they are good Net-citizens, but bad
publishers) Or we could provide a way of easy donations to RFTM or
similar sites. (This seems important as the number of people who access
the net rises from 30 Million to the conservatively quoted 170 million by
the year 2000.

However, the default would remain that if the copyright notice doesn't
explicitly permit the above process, the FAQ couldn't be included in the
compilation.

The question, I guess, is will educating the violators (and providing an
alternate solution) solve the problem? Would it work with Seth Godin?
With the Internet Yellow Pages?

On Tue, 16 May 1995, Henry van Cleef wrote:

> And if some republisher is printing
> it in a book or on a CD-rom and makes a few thousand dollars from
> swiping a few hundred FAQ's without permission, what are we "out?"
> Maybe ten dollars, tops.

Ten dollars a person isn't much. But if 1000 FAQs banded together with the
5% sales donation requirement that is $10,000 or a nice new system for RTFM.

John

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