Are the demos frivolous?...

> AS> I also liked your other idea... we need to somehow get rid
> AS> of “wild traders” (who do not have access to any network or
> AS> who do not maintain relationships with anyone from those who have access to the network),
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> That’s for sure. How many famous traders? And how many cities are there in Russia/CIS?
>8-[ ] Although, maybe, Spectrum is no longer everywhere :(
Exactly so :( ... in Togliatti, they say, it’s no longer there, maybe they’re lying?
In Andreapol, Tver region, Spectrum never existed, Dendy was ;)
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> IMHO, in the rules of E'9x it was warned that all demos would be posted on the Internet
>for free distribution. And if anyone does not agree with this, they should
warn the organizers.
Well, if so, then of course... in our information there was no such thing, IMHO, yet ;)
In general, this is illegal, participation in public competitions cannot be conditioned
by a waiver of copyright... so not a single art exhibition has taken place, not a single film festival. 8-)
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> AS> And we, the organizers of FT'98, had a discussion about this - like
> AS> came to the conclusion that only works can be freely copied
> AS> that took places (received cash prizes),
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> Yeah, there will be prizes after all :)
There will be, of course, but why else would you take money for entry? :)
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>AS> as well as those whose authors will make them frivolous at the festival or
> AS> will give them away as a gift to FT'98.
> AS> Floppy disks with the same works will be sold, but with FT'98 stickers,
> AS> it seems so, if I got something wrong let the fellow organizing committee members
> AS> correct me ;)
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> Inconsistency: there will be demos frivolous, but only
the organizers of FanTop will distribute them?
_Everyone_ will not, only those who have received prizes (as required by law) and
_donated_ by the authors... festival trade, as far as I know,
is planned only on the day of the event, again, most of the proceeds from its
will go to prizes... so... we are only fighting for a good prize
fund ;) Draw your conclusions, gentlemen. And then, as I understand it, they will take money
"for FT'98 stickers",
and everyone will be able to freely copy any freeware. There is truth
one difficulty here: the festival will take place for one day :(, and the winners will
be known only in the evening, so the majority will have to copy the prize
works over the network. The winning works will automatically become frivolous,
the rest only at the request of their authors, upon preliminary registration of the works
WE GUARANTEE THE RETENTION OF ALL COPYRIGHTS subject to forwarding in a way that excludes careless loss of information. That is, either thisthere must be a protected floppy disk (you will need to bring an EXACT copy without protection to the festival itself),
or a file archived in rar (NOT ZIP!!!) with a password (preferably PGP).
By the way, everyone who wants to sell anything at FT'98 (software, hard, etc.) do not waste time, contact the Organizing Committee to resolve all issues in advance
and so that everything goes in an organized manner and everyone is happy.
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> Warm greetings, Slava!
>
Sincerely, Andrey S.