[game_preservation] Classic gaming magazines for sale in digital? Plus Gumpei Yokoi translation

[Jose P. Zagal]

Yes, you can sell Wikipedia articles.
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Jose

On 8/18/2010 8:09 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Now wait a minute... Are you actually allowed to sell Wikipedia

> articles? They use Creative Commons licensing. Maybe you can do that if

> it's share-alike...

>

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org

> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     Yeah, don't bother, as I said it's just republished Wikipedia

>     articles Melanie!

>

>     Not to say there won't ever be republished archives, but this won't

>     be it.

>

>     Andrew

>

>

>     On 18/08/2010 02:43, Melanie Swalwell wrote:

>

>         Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>             Was googling something else and an interesting series of

>             products by this seller came up. They appear to be

>             subscriptions to an online database of videogame magazines.

>             The description doesn't really tell me much, but they're

>             being published by Books LLC. This almost seems like a scam...

>

>         Well I can vouch for the mag titles -- I've just spent the last

>         year accessing and going through these in hard copy in the State

>         Library of New South Wales. They are legit. Some mags from this

>         period are partially scanned and available online. I would be

>         VERY interested if they were all available digitally. I am also

>         intrigued as to how this could all be bundled, esp. into a 62 pp

>         paperback??. While ACP published some of these titles, I find it

>         hard to believe that PBL would own the rights to all these

>         publications -- I know they didn't published ETI, for instance

>         -- though they may well have licenced them. I wasn't aware PBL

>         was such an archivally aware company... Maybe its new owners are

>         taking it in new directions, trading off the back catalogue.

>         James Packer is supposedly more interested in casinos than media

>         these days. I will do some digging and see what I can find out.

>

>         Melanie

>

>

>             http://www.amazon.com/Australian-Computer-Magazines-Nintendo-Powerplay/dp/1155323173/

>

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José P. Zagal
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College of Computing and Digital Media
DePaul University

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