Colleagues: I have read this thread also with great interest. I was also surprised to read some of the unfair comments about the care and feeding of kit builders or those who support fair play. I've posted on several occasions a request to not buy plans from several EBAYERS who not only pirate MA, MAN, FM, RCM, Bob Holman, John Pond, etc but make multiple copies of plans and the mag article and sell mass copies on Ebay.
If the lawyers/modelers want to help the hobby, why not turn your expertise to stopping plans and plans/patterns, short kit cloners. The present copyright law gives the copyright holder life +70 years for heirs to collect royalties. I was told under-no-uncertain terms by one of the respondents who has been rightfully criticized ".....that I should just be glad that the plans are available......and the cloner was doing me a BIG favor...." I also wrote earlier about "modeler's pride", during the 60-80's no modeler would have considered, or remained a club member, cloning Don Clark's Thermal Sniffler. I am sad to see that this trust has not only disappeared, but the whole idea laughed at. IMHO and TIA for the bandwidth Jim On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:50:24 +0000, "Brian Courtice" wrote: > > > Brian, Well said, but as I have been told by many wise > people, he feeds off of this stuff......... > Patrick Conway > > You're probably right Patrick. I‘ve always believed that if you can’t > say something nice, don’t say anything, so you will very rarely see me > posting critical comments. > > It just really irks me to have Gordy interrupt a thread I was following > with considerable interest, just to have him tell me that the thread is > spam, and by the way, "I’m in Tennessee this week and I’m having > transmission problems." > > Now that’s important! No spam there. > > My 1999 Ford Ranger needs a brake job. Should I alert the list? > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format > > > Jim Ealy Education by Demonstration RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
