[Bf-webcontent] Re: Getting back lost tutorials

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Good plan! Probably a note like this is more positive;

'This tutorial was no longer available online, but has been salvaged  
using www.archive.org. If you are the original author please contact us  
<link>'

-Ton-


On 7 Nov, 2004, at 11:40, Bart Veldhuizen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> hurrah! We can retrieve lost tutorials by using the Wayback Machine on  
> www.archive.org. For example, the IceMan's Pencil tutorial is no  
> longer available online, but we can still grab it from this page:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://205.152.62.12/gruff/pencil/
>
> So, the real question now is: these people may no longer be reachable,  
> but many of these tutorials are invaluable. Do we need their  
> permission before we publish this content on blender3d.org, or is it  
> reasonable to salvage it, add a note at the top of each of these  
> copies on blender3d.org ('This tutorial was no longer available  
> online, but has been salvaged using www.archive.org. If you are the  
> original author and you object to this, please concact us <link>').
>
> I strongly feel that since we are not claiming ownership of these  
> tutorials, it should be okay to do the latter. What do you think? Ton  
> - what's your opinion about this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart
>
>
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