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I think Ron's got a point here and a very good one.




Don in DC


On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Ron Harvey wrote:

>
> Scott Johnson said:
>
> WOW, COMMON Europe has the presentations available to anybody!
>
> Last time I tried to access the recent presentations for COMMON (USA), you had
> to sign in AND you had to have gone to that conference. I assumed being a
> COMMON member with paid up dues, I could access the presentations after the
> conference. Silly me. I sent them an email about not having access and they
> pretty much said that it just the way it is.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Scott, I'm actually very surprised Common Europe allows absolutely anyone to 
> download presentations.
>
> A lot of this is speaker related. They put a huge amount of time and effort 
> into the presentations they "give" away at Common and get paid to do 
> elsewhere.
>
> If you allow all your handouts to be downloaded en-mass by anyone, you might 
> not be doing any paid gigs before long.
>
> That's some, if not most, of Common USA's reasoning.
>
> Ron
>
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