Stephen makes some good points. Perhaps an online "petition", getting people to simply add their name to a message requesting release of the module would help to show that the interest is substantial.
Scott On Tuesday 10 September 2002 06:59 am, you wrote: > > why not set up a web page for user request of the locked > > modules.... > > To avoid annoying bible societies, I would not have an > auto-emailer. Registering the level of interest might be a good > idea though. > > > Maybe an appeal > > to their bank balance might be stronger than an appeal to their > > conscience? > > There are presumably different kinds of copyright holders, amongst > others, you'd have: > 1. Those who wish to retain their rights to royalties from their > creation. 2. Those who wish that their creation is not altered (nor > the altered version passed off as the unaltered version) > 3. Those who are working on something 'better' than what they've > already published, so don't really want the ''not as good' > publication distributed. > > I suspect that those holding copyrights & distribution licenses on > texts we'd wish to distribute for use with sword and related > projects, are mostly concerned with the authenticity of the text > remaining. The problem here is a problem with all digital media, if > you've got the tools to read it, you can envisage the tools to > modify it. > > Stephen. (who is not an expert on copyright)
