[DML] DMC Documents.

[Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- James <james@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<SNIP>
> How to best present these items to the DeLorean
> community has been a
> problem I've been wrestling with for some time. As
> David T. mentioned,
> these items have some instrinsic value as
> "intellectual property" and
> are considered to be assets that we acquired through
> our purchase of
> the KAPAC inventory.

Are you saying that because DMCH is in possession of
the documents, they therefore own the intellectual
property??  It is my understanding that KPAC had no
ownership of any intellectual property at all, so how
could they be transferred to DMCH?

> Also, as David mentioned, there are limits as to
> what I can
> distribute, not so much for "secrecy", but for time
> constraints. The
> history of the original DMC is of great interest to
> me, but it
> generates absolutely zero revenue for the company.
> Stephen does prefer
> that I spend my working hours on projects and tasks
> that generate
> income for the company, as you might imagine. 

Passion versus profit.

> I would like to be able to scan and post them
> online, but don't want
> them to be "lifted" from the site and posted
> everywhere. I want them
> to be used as a "draw" to our website or magazine.
> That is the "wiggle
>  room" that I have with Stephen to get these
> scanned, posted, whatever.

If the documents are distributed on the DMCH website
or DeLoreans magazine, There comes in to question the
copyright of the documents themselves (independent of
the IP ownership).  

This discussion was about disseminating information,
not profiting from it.

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> In my spare time, after working hours, I have been
> scanning these
> memos, files and telexes with the idea of burning
> them to CD/DVD, but
> there are literally thousands (maybe tens of
> thousands) of pages of
> files here. I've culled through them over the years
> and have about
> 250-300 of the interesting ones scanned.

An effort to compile all of these documents would be
noble, especially to make them available on DVD/CD for
a small fee (or free).  I though Knut was working on a
project like this at some point, and I had offered the
few documents I have collected over the years...

So, send them to me, I will be happy to scan them and
make them available.

> This brings up a related subject, the massive amount
> of historical
> documents being sold online by the bankruptcy
> trustee. I believe that
> once these documents are sold and in private
> collections, they will
> never see the light of day again. In a worst case
> scenario, in the
> event of a divorce or child going off to college,
> some of these items
> may be discarded by a malevolent spouse or an
> unwitting parent. In any
> case, they're no better off in the hands of the
> eBayer than they were
> in the trustee's files.

I agree, the selling of these documents on Ebay for
profit is awful.  The collection is being split up,
and will never again be put back together.  The
information is (for the most part) lost.

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