A first for ME&W

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

EGA, do a page count for the last issue

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

What Neil had to say recently about Content. Here

If MEW content is not coming in he can’t publish what he does not have. Also time of year means you will get articles about how far a loco will go on a teaspoon of coal. I expect there will be some MMEX reports filling the pages, apparently not much home made tooling on show so expect more photos of models. Could that be a sign that people are making models and not tools, the other forums HMEM, MEM, Mech, all have very little “tool” content

[JAParticipant @ja]

I have always considered tools as a means to an end and not an end in their selves.

I think Jason has already commented on it but the lack of interest on the forum in MMEX saddens me. If I was Neil I would take note and do the obvious – not report on MMEX at all.

JA

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Regarding the copyright problem, our long-standing principle is of an author designing and building a project (usually a complex model), having drawings, photographs and instructions published in the magazine; then finding a retailer for the drawings and raw materials.

Is Kesley trying to kill this?

Assuming the design to be a working miniature of an old machine appropriately modified for construction and function, or is a project original to its maker, if Kelsey demands all rights to all material submitted to it:

 

To whom does the drawings copyright then belong?

The designer, the plan-set retailer… or Kelsey?

 

To whom does the design right belong?

The designer… or Kelsey?

 

What if a builder/owner submits his own photographs to both his club magazine or web-site, or some “social-medium” other than this forum, having already sent them to MEW?

 

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I explored Kelsey Media’s own web-sites and Wikipedia entry. The latter omits MEW and Radio Control Models & Electronics, the only two titles dedicated to anyone creating anything; excluding farming and amateur-gardeners’ magazines, and a couple on motor-vehicle maintenance.

Woodwork, metalwork, computing and CAD/CAM, electronics generally (apart from a shoppers’ review magazine), model-railways, any models not in MEW and RCME remit, painting & pottery, cookery, household DIY…  all excluded.

Even knitting, needlework and related, despite the “Alpacas” magazine. If we cannot make a spinning-wheel we cannot use all that soft camelid hair!

Most of those hobbies have or had their journals, but is Kelsey Media unable to understand the desire to create things? Perhaps that dangerous desire has been covered in KM’s home-hypondriacs’ glossy Psychologies [sic].

 

If a hobby find its hard to attract newcomers, maybe this profits-led suppression is one of the many reasons.

At least Kelsey Media is a British company, not owned by the take-and-destroy “venture capital” spivs in Wall Street or Shanghai.

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