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

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

yes you can, there are several print wikipedia compilations floating 
around, in several languages.  I have seen them and they are follow what 
CC requires.

Henry

On 8/18/2010 6:09 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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