Allan Senefelder wrote: | ||
They're all Peter's and thus Albions designs. I'm sure that Peter would be flattered to know that his hard work and documentation, part of how he makes his living, should be simply diseminated to any and all comers for free. That will certainly help to keep him in business and making those extrodinary blades we all so much enjoy. Driving to museums all over Europe and living in motels ect. is apparently a free of charge thing he does if i'm to believe some comentary in this thread. I didn't realize Peter and Ablion were doing research as a charity endevor. If this sounds like sarcasm, it is, I appologize Nathan and Chad but really this is absurd, this is a very basic concept, you put in the leg work to document it and no one, no one, has any right to that AT ALL! Anyone else is welcome to do thier own legwork or pay some one to do it for them ( Francisco, you are doing your smith job and paying him for the privilege, he should be doing the research, its his job) and thus obtain it, but has no rights to the research done by another. Theres not really room for argueing this it is the basis for copyright law. |
This reminds me of a story............
I was working on a project for Interscope records about 3 yrs ago. I had put up to that point 2 yrs of my life re writing songs and arranging them for recording in support of their new artist. After a few demo tapes they felt he was ready for the big release, but without his writing partners of course. So they go in the studio to record and hire another guitar player to play MY parts that I wrote. When it was realized they couldn't copy my playing and would have to start from scratch, they gave me a call. They then proceeded to ask me the voicings and tunings I used on the demos because they were having trouble reproducing them. I respectfully told them where to put the phone and informed them of my union rate if they wanted me to come down and reproduce my work on the songs. Subsequently when he could not reproduce the songs (Because I was the primary writer by the time I was done with his songs) and the price of starting from scratch was too much they dropped him.
So should I have given him the tunings? No way. Should I have recorded for free? No on that. About the only thing I should have done was to copywrite my parts as significant contributions to the structure of the songs. So in that light why should someone else get the benefit from someone else's leg work? You reap what you so my friend, and it's not fair to ask someone, let alone a company that has to survive in a not so stable economy, to give away something they spent a great deal of money and time on to get. Just like I spent 10 yrs learning my trade and shouldn't give it away for free. I'm sure if you asked to be steered to the original inspirations for the pommel they would have helped you out. Hell you could probably find it in" Records of the Medieval Sword". The point is you (Or your smith) should do the leg work instead of being mad at someone for not wanting to part with for nothing the fruits of theirs. Would you, needing to work to survive, work for free forsaking that survival? I think not.