I second that motion!

Also Castle of Frankenstein, The Monster Times, Filmfax, Psychotronic and Cinefantastique.

Hmm.. do I detect a theme here? ;)

what a waste!

prelinger, above, has the right idea. If your going to achive something use standard based formats.

Please consider documentation formats when you produce an achive.

btw: if you need a specific operating system to view documents you’ll soon find you are limiting your market.

thanks

re-v

1. If these writers don’t want their works published, why do they write them?

Answer: Because we also want to be credited and paid.

2. And why do they think they still own them after they have sold them?

Answer: Because our contracts and copyright law says that we own them. My first very first contract ever stipulated “first North American serial rights” which means printing in a North American magazine the first time. The author then gets to sell reprint rights. There was no mention of being pressed on little plastic disks for compilations and those subsequently sold, and in any case, I would be entitled by contract to author’s copies of those as well. Which I never received.

3. And if they only want to rent them, why don’t they get contracts that say so?

Answer: Our contracts often do say so. Explicitly. In words even idiots should understand. Unfortunately greedy megacorporations are in the habit of acquiring old publishers and squeezing as much cash as they can from them and can’t be bothered to do things like review old contracts or even keep them on file properly. It’s much cheaper to hire a lawyer to yell “Ha ha ha — we own it all!” and poke and prod at the system until they find a judge who’ll see it their way.

Anyone got one? The process is nondestructive.

Rick Prelinger
acquisitions@prelingerlibrary.org
http://www.prelingerlibrary.org

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/no_increase_in.php

and did I get it.

all 40 years of The Rolling Stone.

THE Rolling Stone? Rolling Stone don’t need no stinkin’ indefinite articles!

The search functions were pretty good on the Mad DVD, so it’ll be nice for when I’m telling a friend about a legendary Michael O’Donoghue article that’s in a issue, but I don’t remember which one. (Although the Mad DVDs weren’t searchable by author… grrr.)

The case was settled previously with Tasini vs. The New York Times. Hardly surprising that they’ve now come up with a new way to not pay authors but make money while doing it.

Pretty much the whole of the Fortean Times, IIRC, Searchable, indexed PDF’s.

http://www.amazon.com/Victor-Technologies-2021139-Magazine-Archive/dp/B00002EIWS

Dragon Magazine, up to about five years ago.

I would like to see Harper’s (which dates to the 1850s or so) release all their stuff, and Life magazine, what with all the great photos.

I was a huge fan of Omni, from the time I discovered it in 1987, precisely the midpoint of its run, until it folded in 1995. I do have a number of earlier issues, including the first and a couple others from its first year, but I still don’t know what you mean by it becoming Penthouse Jr., Om. As far as I could tell, it always was classy, albeit a touch lame in its latter days.

Other compilations I’d love, if only for the sake of nostalgia:

* Sesame Street (my uncle did a lot of photography for them in the early days)

* 3-2-1 Contact (ditto)

* Weekly Reader

* Dynamite and Hot Dog

* AXcess (it straddled between Mondo 2000 and Wired)

* Heavy Metal

* The Weekly World News

* The Comics Journal (naturally, given recent developments, they’d have to excise interviews with Harlan Ellison)

* The Onion

I’m sure more will come to me, but that’s a healthy sampling for now.

Personally, I think this is a good ruling, and as a result we get the much-criticized Complete New Yorker, which is far from perfect but I’d rather look at imperfect original page layouts than ASCII anyway.

We cover the Complete New Yorker extensively at Emdashes.com — by all means come visit us! http://emdashes.com/squib-report/
Sorry for the plug, but it is right up our alley.

I agree, Mark. I really liked NatLamp’s “Miracle Monopoly Cheating Kit,” which contained Chance cards and money in very large denominations.

1) Cracked. Sylvester P. Smythe beat the frack out of Alfred E. Neumann any day of the week!

2) Cinefex. Nuff Said!

3) Starlog. Especially the first 8-9 years, when the magazine was still worth a shit.

4) Look. The competitor to Life had its share of classic photography that needs to be shared with later generations.

5) Omni. Or, at least, the first 5 years or so, before Guccionni’s tramp daughter tried to turn it into Penthouse Jr.

6) Rolling Stone. Again, ‘Nuff Said!

7) Famous Monsters of Filmland. Forry would just wet his pants over a full set of his classics on DVD!

8) Jane’s for both Aircraft and Ships, from the first edition to the last. An excellent way to chart the evolution of global warfare capabilities and the intelligence that helped dig up what the frack they were all about.

9) By that same token AvLeak. No explanation necessary.

10) Finally, Smithsonian and SASM. The “Poor Man’s NatGeo”, but still worth the DVD compilations!

…Of course, the real question is whether or not these can be released without the use of bullshit proprietary readers that don’t allow for ease of use. That was what was crippled the NatGeo set for me. Just give it to us in hi-rez PDFs and be done with it!