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narfstar:
Not sure of the status of ACG silver so GAC is holding off. Boughton did reprints but must have proven financially not worthwhile. My guess is with no money to be made or lost it would not be a problem but GAC is playing it safe because it appears that they did go to Boughton.

crimsoncrusader:
Any issue published before 1964 was not renewed and would be public domain. Those issues could be added to GAC.

Snard:

--- Quote from: Yoc on June 09, 2010, 06:19:43 PM ---You are far more likely to find SA scans on GAC than here Salty.
I don't see any of that title there though you might suggest it.

http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/index.php

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Am I the only one here who finds it slightly ironic that the Golden Age Comics site would host silver age books, and the Digital Comics Museum (whose name doesn't restrict itself to a particular age) would not? ;)

narfstar:
No Snard you are not alone that has often crossed my mind, especially as GAC branches into later pd books. BTW: did Boughton renew any of those ACG books?

John C:

--- Quote from: Snard on June 11, 2010, 06:28:24 AM ---Am I the only one here who finds it slightly ironic that the Golden Age Comics site would host silver age books, and the Digital Comics Museum (whose name doesn't restrict itself to a particular age) would not? ;)

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It's kinda-sorta on the long term "roadmap," but most of the staff worries we don't have the manpower/discipline to keep things on the level or successfully deal with someone (along the lines of a John Carbonaro) who "bought the rights," doesn't know what that means, and will happily use sneaky means to keep people from using the material.

It's an ongoing discussion, but the Golden Age limit, for the moment, is artificial and mostly because it's what we know how to check and organize quickly.

One problem raised, for example, is that we don't have a practical way to defend against fraud.  If we accept books based on a lack of valid copyright statement, for example, we're relying on every uploader to not tamper with the indicia.  While I can't think of anybody in the general community that isn't trustworthy, we all know there are people out on the Internet who'd do it just for the sake of vandalism.

You might think that this is paranoid, but running a site like this carries a lot of the stigma associated with the pirate sites, so keeping noses clean needs to be a fairly high priority.

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