[sac-board] Re: FW: [FWD: Question about Copyright Laws]

(I responded privately to Richard about this.)

Yes, I do have a copy of Wally's "Astro Class Classics" booklet.  As 
well as material he prepared for the "first" SAC Messier Marathon.  I 
had intended to scan that myself.
AJ, you had expressed interest in getting a copy of that to Wally's 
children.
I may still have that address someplace, but I would have to look for 
it.  I also have had an HD crash recently...

Andrew, the other problem is that the original documents were Xerox 
copies, not very good quality.  Wally made some very nice drawings and 
finder charts for all the objects, and he had some additional pointers 
on observing.  But it would be a major job to "update" that, especially 
in light of all of the other publications that are now available.  That 
was produced at a time when there were not so many observing guides as 
there are today.

As I mentioned to Richard, Wally told me he had submitted that material 
to Astronomy magazine (Kalmbach Publishing) at the time, but they did 
not respond.  So Wally was "locked out" and could not submit that to 
another publisher.
As far as putting it on the web, permission would be up to his 
children.  I feel it is pretty much of only "historic" interest at this 
point.

Cheers,
Gene Lucas
(17250)
AJ Crayon wrote:
> Andrew, I'd have to see the document first to determine updating.  Don't 
> know if I have one or not.  If anyone does I'd believe Gene Lucas would. 
> What say you Gene?
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> AJ Crayon
> Phoenix, AZ
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Goodwin" <a.goodwin1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:47 AM
> Subject: [sac-board] Re: FW: [FWD: Question about Copyright Laws]
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>    Although Wally is not on this document I thought you might have lost this
> as well. It does need updating.
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> clear Skies
> Andrew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of AJ Crayon
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:25 AM
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> Subject: [sac-board] Re: FW: [FWD: Question about Copyright Laws]
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> Dick, Wally passed away some years ago and, during that time, one of his
> kids and I shared some e-mails.  Unfortunately that address was last seen on
> my laptop, which was stolen hence I don't know how to contact anyone in his
> estate.  See if I can have a few days or so to rummage around and see if
> anything can be turned up.
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> Actually I'd like to see Wally's work posted on the internet - with
> appropriated references.
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> AJ Crayon
> Phoenix, AZ
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