Re: [Killietalk] Question

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

Al had some good points, but BOT policy, I suspect, has sabotaged things 
nearly beyond repair.

AKA has a responsibility to protect the intellectual property of authors 
and photographers (by strictly observing copyrights), but they have had 
a tendency to treat them as if they were the Great American Novel, or 
the newest release of Windoze, worth many millions. The AKA BOT should 
never try to be the intellectual property police. It is up to the DVD 
(not CD, by the way) buyer to respect the copyright. [HD or Blu-Ray DVD 
will be obsolete well before the project is finished, at the present rate.]

Attempting to treat the project as an archival thing, rather than to get 
the information into the hands of breeders and other hobbyists has done 
little to speed things up.

Unlike Al and Donna, I have not saved my old Journals with any 
regularity, so I am possibly more anxious for the project to move ahead 
than maybe they are.

I would strongly prefer the information in Word, so I could copy and 
paste (within fair-use rules, of course), search, and otherwise actually 
use the information. Acrobat makes many uses difficult if not 
impossible. Reprints of the Journal are not data sheets or product 
manuals that must be protected against spoofing, nor are they binding 
legal contracts. Why treat them as such?

I see no reason why simply scanning them into Word and attaching 
pictures as JPEGs wouldn't get the job done fairly quickly and easily. 
As Al says, it is the information we want. Most of us don't give a xxxx 
about what a sixties document actually looked like, or even want to try 
to read garbled text on a mottled background.

Just my 2 cents,

Wright

Donna M. Recktenwalt wrote:
> We, too, "way back when", had offered to help out. Our offer wasn't taken..
> Donna and Tom Recktenwalt
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Anderson" <augustand at sbcglobal_net>
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Question
>
>
>   
>> Dear Dr. Cooper,
>> You have had the project for over 10 years it is about time to get it 
>> done!.
>>     

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Wright Huntley - 805 Valley West Cir., Bishop CA 93514 
whuntley at verizon_net 760 872-3995. Cell 760 937-2276

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