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Harvey (Brenneise) wrote : "if the AOS Bulletin/Orchids CD digitization project ever eventuated?"
The project was : "to scan all of pages of the AOS Bulletins from Volume I in 1932 to December 1995.
... several CDs and DVD with a comprehensive searchable index.
... known as "Bulletin-on-a-CD/DVD" ... [was to] be marketed by the AOS... expected to be completed by the end of 2003.
source : http://www.theaos.org/welcome/minutes.html
As far as I know, the project was abandoned but I have been unable to find the info about the reasons for such a decision.
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Harvey also wrote :
"they never asked my permission to use my intellectual property therein, and thus would be open to legal action by
anyone who hadn't signed away their intellectual property rights."
As far as I know, no one gets paid for an article published in the AOS Bulletin / [now] Orchids.
Most institutions based on voluntary work would not bother with asking permission when reproducing these contributions.
Seriously, would you take legal action against the AOS ?
Copyright is an interesting subject but ethics is not one of the most prevailing values in this 'free lunch mentality' era...
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