Re: (idm) collector greed/stupidity

From syntext
Sent Mon, Jan 18th 1999, 19:50

>> I mean, offering hundreds of dollars for a twelve inch is going to far,
>> but I find this especially crass because Dave is responding to somone's
>> offer to not only scan in the article for people, but convert it into a
>> PDF file as well!!!
>
>What's crass is your belief that scanning in the entire magazine is a fine
>thing to do.  It's copyrighted, therefore it's illegal to do so.

it would only be illegal if I did it without getting permmission (see my
original post below) 

> I lucked out and managed to get it direct from them, but that was 2 years
>ago...  I was thinking of scanning the whole thing and putting it into a pdf
>file or something like that, though there's the pesky copyright issue to
>contend with, but I was going to email emigre and ask them about this... 
>would anyone be interested in such a thing?  
>q


also, the idea of calling foul with respects to copyright and dr strikes me
as a bit ironic seeing that
they're some of the pioneers of "sampledelic" design, and have been prone to
using appropriation themselves
quite often.   but then, that's an arguement that goes back to dada, me
thinks...
(not of course to say that what I was proposing was "appropriation", more
like archival, but whatever eh?)

later
q