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Post by Malcolm on Jun 28, 2005 21:14:56 GMT
I got the renewal form for my ME subscription today. They wanted £55.25 for the year. The magazine advertises renewal for £48.75. After a bit of argy-bargy they charged me £48.75. They try this on every year.Watch out all of you, that you are not done by these crooks.
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Post by Tel on Jun 28, 2005 22:24:30 GMT
Well they got no hope of doin' that to me - I stopped getting it about a year after Ted Jolliffe pulled out. Only mag I get regularly now is AME, which is still value for money.
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waggy
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Post by waggy on Jun 30, 2005 11:39:20 GMT
I too have recently let my subscription to ME slide. I got a bit fed up reading about paradoxical gears and CNC machining. HOWEVER, before you all bite back, I blame myself and fellow modellers for the magazines decline in articles that interest me. A magazine like ME can only ever be as good as the content of articles submitted by readers for publication. We all have good ideas and questions to ask, why not put pen to paper and circulate them through the magazine readership?
On the other hand, I don't understand why the magazine doesn't re-run some of the articles published years ago, especially those that created a lot of discussion in the postbag. Your thoughts?
Waggy.
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Post by the_viffer on Jun 30, 2005 11:44:23 GMT
On the other hand, I don't understand why the magazine doesn't re-run some of the articles published years ago, especially those that created a lot of discussion in the postbag. Your thoughts? Waggy. I'm not at all sure that they have the copyright in the articles: mainly I think they are retained by the authors under the ME contract. I did look into this kind of thing in the bright happy days of the internet boom when I had some ideas about making several million quick bucks and as I recall it was a horrid mess. How do you find the owner of the copyright in a work published donkeys years ago when the author has been dead for ages and his estate thought it was worth nowt? |
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Post by GeorgeRay on Jun 30, 2005 19:17:37 GMT
Has anyone seen issue number 4250 with a cover date of 24 June -8 July. My subscription copy hasn't arrived has anyone elses.
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Post by Peter W. on Jun 30, 2005 21:13:07 GMT
I bought 4250 at my newsagents last Monday, so you're
a fortnight late for subscription ....
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waggy
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Post by waggy on Jun 30, 2005 21:18:28 GMT
Doesn't copyright expire after fifty years? Perhaps our legal friends could advise. These are the most interesting articles, showed us how to make do and mend, from the days when there wasn't as much money around. I have a few old model railway mags., one article that comes to mind showed how to make a tower from the card tube from a toilet roll. And how to paint it so it looked good! No, I can't find it!!
Waggy.
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Post by SteveW on Jun 30, 2005 21:33:46 GMT
All,
The main problem of recycling old articles apart from copyright is that some of the old buggers (b u g g e r s) will notice.
There have already been winges about repeating Chuck the Muddle Engineer.
Having read through the fall-out of the club's library re-org the adverts are worth seeing again. Some prices have been almost stationary over the last ten years while in older issues a brand new Boxford or Myford can be had for just one weeks pension.
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Post by the_viffer on Jul 1, 2005 7:23:20 GMT
Doesn't copyright expire after fifty years? Perhaps our legal friends could advise. These are the most interesting articles, showed us how to make do and mend, from the days when there wasn't as much money around. I have a few old model railway mags., one article that comes to mind showed how to make a tower from the card tube from a toilet roll. And how to paint it so it looked good! No, I can't find it!! Waggy. Whether I am legal or a friend is debatable. What is not is that currently copyright expires 75 years after the end of the year of the death of the author. Previously it was 50 years after the end of the year of the death of the author. Before that it was shorter. It is known in the trade as the Mickey Mouse period on the basis that the law changes to ensure that Mickey Mouse is always a copyright work. Conspiracy theorists take note. |
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Post by the_viffer on Jul 1, 2005 8:41:52 GMT
Sorry I meant to say 70 years from the end of the year of the author's death
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Post by 3405jimmy on Jul 1, 2005 21:42:26 GMT
Spot on Waggy yep if we want to read something other than what’s in the ME someone’s got to write it. God forbid it’s another 0-4-0 there cannot be any more left in the world to describe. Given the cost for a bi-monthly magazine £50ish ain't that bad even if it’s just to read the advertisements.
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