bassduke49 wrote:I'm not connected with this magazine at all, but I would implore you all to reconsider "scanning" and posting the contents of any copyrighted publication on this website . . . or any website for that matter. As a retired magazine editor I can relate to the rampant "electronic distribution" of someone's hard work that results in no compensation for its creators. I know there is an inherent expectation among many internet users that you can get stuff for free here, but this ends up being nothing better than theft. So please respect the print media. We can all see the same photos of the bass in Paul's "Curmudgeon" department for "free," so let's not expose the RRF to potential legal trouble.
I agree with this to an extent.
In some circles, print media is rapidly dying. It is inevitable for this to happen. Some print media is time sensitive on how valuable the information is (obviously newspapers bear this out). I worked for a computer magazine and was forever pushing to have our content put online, even if it was delayed by a month after the product shipped.
It was a better way to distribute to people who would otherwise not know about your product to begin with unless it was picked up at the narrow newsstand which is always increasingly filling up with hundreds of other magazines in competition for the best space.
My publisher and EIC disagreed. The magazine faltered after I left but is still around and is still trying to find the right market for itself.
Fortunately, they've come to their senses and you can find a lot of the issues in PDF form on their site now.
And while I think it's perfectly valid for some print media to go online and remain online, it is perfectly valid for some print media to stay offline or put delayed online content out there. Media which isn't time sensitive, like Bass Player, are a perfect example of this.
I can see where just a picture scanned from this article might be a great thing to have on the site, but even that is part of the print article and thus, IMO, shouldn't be scanned without the express consent of the publisher.