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It is my understanding that we are permitted to use drawings for "Personal" use. This is a example of a feature that has not appeared recently in MR. I also point to the number of "Beginner's Articles" that have appeared with photos and descriptions written by the author that most certainly will be replicated alot across the hobby as readers adopt the techniques for own layouts etc. I am horrified by the prospect of having to track down estates and Authors for permission to "reprint" a previous work into a CD format which is basically a storage medium for PC's no different from a hard disk which holds the PDf's from the current information station articles. Also previous MR Issues contain much information that probably will be lost to time. They also contain advertisements, pricing, coupons and photos from companies that no longer exist execpt in history and in the hearts of those that actually worked for them. Issues that were published for profit in 1940 cannot possibly contain any great monetary value. The real value is in the works within such a old article on paper that will probably deteriote and never be seen by current modelers who are growing up. Even the technology used back then will assist a novice modeler who may not yet be able to afford DCC systems. The costs of DCC Control already is almost the entire cost in the several hundereds of dollars of setting up and construcing a layout of any size. Perhaps the sheer cost of securing permissions across several decades of work to be replicated onto CD's for the preservation of the hobby as well as the benefit of having access to the entire MR from day one makes the venture very difficult.
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