COMMON Presentations - WAS: RE: BIF's - was: RPG Free question

Part of my "WOW" was the fact that they were available to anybody and not just
COMMON members.  This was a surprise to me after all that I went thru trying to
get at the current ones for COMMON-USA.  The older USA conferences do have the
handouts available to all COMMON members.  It is the handouts for the recent
conferences where they limit it to the people who actually went to the
conference.  At least this is the way it was a couple of months ago.

I do realize some/most/all of the presentations are copyrighted by their
presenters, but I think they give COMMON the ok to post them.?.?  I thought this
is why so many of the presentations don't have their handouts on line.  In some
cases the handouts are worthless unless you went to the actual session.

The reason I was looking into the session handouts is to see what is going on in
the industry.  For those of us that work for companies that can't send people to
the conferences all the time, the handouts give a good way to keep at least
somewhat up to date.

-- Scott J

Ron Harvey said:
> 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.
>

Don said:
> I think it's only COMMON Europe, although I think COMMON-USA
> allows the
> members to have access after the conference and after they've weeded
> through them a bit...