Re: Announce: A2Command 1.0 - Full Release

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Feb 26, 12:29 am, James Littlejohn <nargut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 6:33 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This entire
> > situation seems primarily a matter of common respect and courtesy.
>
> You are exactly right. Some of us take the time to buy and scan these
> unavailable documents and post them on our sites for everyone to use,
> and then someone comes along and strips credit for the works and posts
> them on his/her site and claims credit.
>
> There is no profit in it only the notoriety of having done something
> for the community.
>
> Several of the Documents that I have personally scanned, that were not
> available before on the web, have found their way to A2O site and been
> stripped of credit page.
> Now being presented as his/her own scanned works.
>
> I now have scanned a stack of Applied Engineering, Bell@Howell, and
> Apple II manuals that are not available anywhere on the web and really
> don't care to have the credit for my many hours of hard work stolen
> from me.
>
> Payton Byrd, I apologize for posting this in your thread but it is
> something that has really been overlooked.
>
> A2Command is a great project, keep up the GOOD work.

Amen there James.  Quite frankly a good number of us have thousands of
hours into our sites and have spent a lifetime collecting the items we
make available.  For someone just to come along and copy our entire
sites without permission or any credit and make it out to be their own
is not only annoying but also disrespectful of the creators of the
site.

I dont care if someone copies items and leaves the copyright messages
in and gives credit to the creators but in this case, the items are
being downloaded, stripped of security and copyright messages that are
in at the request of copyright owners, and then renamed and posted as
their own production.  That is not only wrong, but totally
unacceptable.  Derivative works are copyrighted and as such, the
authors who created the derivative works can claim copyright.  In this
case, the AE Brochures were derivative works by Brian Wiser and to
have those just copied after all the work he put into it is totally
unacceptable.

JMHO

--billm--