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Re: RE: Cribs

Oct. 5, 2001, 4:55 p.m. (Message 27774, in reply to message 27729)

In the pre-computer days when "cut and paste" meant cut and paste, I
was doing program books for my branch. We used both word cues and
Pillings.

The process was to dismantle two of Pillings's books coating
alternative pages with adhesives and mounting them on plastic 3x5
index cards, doing the same for our word cues on the other side of the
same card.

Using a "map", all we had to do was stick the Pillings' and word cues
onto 2 sheets of paper and xerox a reduced copy of of these back to
back, fold a certain way and staple, producing a 16 page program [2x3
inches] which included:
    1: Title Page.
 2- 7: Dances 1-10.
 8- 9: Program listing and spaces for partner's names
10-17: Dances 11-20.
   16: Announcements of future events.

Where a copyright might be broken was the actual reproduction of the
Pillings' pages. Had we simply copied the system, we would be no more
guilty than the Boy Scouts signaling in Morris's code. Imaging the
navy getting permission for sending SOS as "...---...".

Since we were performing an educational service not for profit the
original owners of copyrighted dances would have no complaints as we
were promoting their product, as opposed to making a profit on the
sale of their dances as one might consider Pillings doing. Seriously,
though, I considered Pillings providing a service at cost as opposed
to making a profit. Anything Pillings made over cost could be
justified as payment for his labor out of the value he added to the
original product.

R Goss
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