[DECtalk] The Dectalk site is gone, I think.

[Blake Roberts]

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.
Blake

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From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:42 AM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] The Dectalk site is gone, I think.


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.

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.

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.
Jayson

On 6/5/2013 11:00 PM, Tyler wrote:


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:





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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