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size=2 face=Arial>Jayson is correct, the owner of dectalk.com also owns
q-continuum.net. I use QRead also... Although I don't have Christopher's email
address in my address book, I recollected it from having received emailed from
him in the past after contacting q-continuum. I just sent a
message to his Gmail email address asking if dectalk.com is gone forever or
only temporarily. If he responds, I'll inform this list.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Blake</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jayson
Smith<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:42 AM<BR><B>To:</B> DECtalk
Discussions<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DECtalk] The Dectalk site is gone, I
think.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>The point isn't who owns the copyright to the DECtalk
song. Ever since sometime in 1989 or 1990, in the US anyway, anything you create
in a fixed form, be it on tape, in Braille, in print, on a computer, etc. is
automatically and instantly given copyright protection, even if it doesn't have
a copyright notice. Yes, that means this message is copyrighted by me, never
mind that it has absolutely zero commercial value.<BR><BR>The point is that some
people have been creating DECtalk versions of commercial songs, and even worse
from a legal perspective, sometimes they use commercial music as background
music. There's also the issue of the Red Dwarf episodes. Red Dwarf is a UK
television series, and is definitely copyrighted.<BR><BR>As far as Dreamhost
shutting down the site, they might have. However, if I'm not mistaken, it is/was
run by the same guy who runs q-continuum.net, where you can download and buy
several software products. I follow this person on Twitter, and you'd think he'd
at least mention it, and probably be pissed, if his Dreamhost account was
terminated and he had to find a new provider. I know for an absolute fact that
q-continuum is operational, because I had to download QRead
yesterday.<BR>Jayson<BR><BR>On 6/5/2013 11:00 PM, Tyler wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:20130606030045.8970.21082.levelstar.mail@everest
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Who owns the copyright to Any Dectalk songs from that archive? I've never seen a Dectalk
recording with a copyright on it.
Tyler Z
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:36:51 -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Just a brief note to say that dectalk.com has no IP address when doing a
host lookup, so I'm almost positive that DreamHost closed it down and
removed the IP from their nameservers. Interestingly, mail should still
work if anyone here has a contact address for the site owner. In other
words, I'm sure they took it down due to the previously mentioned legal
issues and/or complaints. In my opinion, whomever would put it on a public
web host is an idiot and is just asking for their account to be cut off.
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