RE: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

Your issues with Mr. Dunne aside, the problem I have and I know others do 
as well is one of copyright. I copyright my presentations. As long as I've 
decided to give a pitch at COMMON and provide them with an original, I have 
no problem with COMMON making copies.

I do, however, have questions regarding posting the material on the web 
page, and allowing anyone (COMMON or otherwise) to sell the material 
without royalty. If COMMON would put the presentation .PDF file on a CD-ROM 
and distribute it to the CONFERENCE attendees, I have no problem with that. 
But to put it on the Internet for people to download, I guess I'd have to 
think about the benefit to the majority of the COMMON members before I 
could agree with that.

And for all you hand-out "snarfers" out there... I guess if we print 200 
copies for a room of attendees and 150 people attend the lecture, we should 
end up with 50 left over copies. Hence 50 people can snarf the left overs. 
The problem is when the snarfers come in at the beginning of the lecture 
and don't sit in on it, and then we run out of copies for the attendees 
that actually sit through the lecture.



Bob Cozzi
Bob@RPGIV.COM
www.rpgiv.com
AS/400 Books:  http://www.rpgiv.com/as400Books.html


On Thursday, September 11, 1997 11:12 AM, Don [SMTP:dr2@access.digex.net] 
wrote:
>
>
> Regarding the handouts/CDROM discussions:  Frankly, I CAN NOT DEPEND ON
> THE HANDOUT BEING ON THE CDROM...I've been burned too many times.  Ergo, 
I
> snarf whatever hardcopy handout(s) I need.  Until I can be GUARANTEED by
> someone at common that WILL return phone calls (leaves dunne out of the
> picture :)  to provide missing handouts that aren't on the CDROM I will
> want the hardcopy...
>
> But then, hey, WHY NOT PUT THE HANDOUTS ON THE WEB PAGE?????  This would
> OMIT the need for a CDROM....and the wasted paper...  We've only been
> suggesting this for 3 years now....my guess is that SOMEONE would suggest
> this to dunne...if only he'd return their call...:)
>
> Don in DC metro
>
>
>
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