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you cause to question our intent. So, we've reconsidered the decision and
will authorize a few independent, non-commerical, well-connected sites to
mirror the archive . We've already contacted wuarchive and POV-Ray and are
hoping that they will be willing to continue their valuable service.
6) What about an Avalon CD-ROM? We are preparing a Viewpoint Avalon CD-ROM
which we will make available for a very reasonable price at SIGGRAPH and
after the show by calling Viewpoint. We'd like to know from all of you what
value you'd like to see us add to the Avalon CD above and beyond a simple
snapshot and what price you would view as reasonable.
7) Who "owns" Avalon? The individual models on the Avalon site are owned by
their respective contributors. When you upload a file to Avalon you will
need to state its source and what usage you would like to allow for the
model. A text form will be available soon. This form will be associated
with each model in the future. If someone would like to remove their work
from the archive, we will, of course honor such a request, but since it's
been in the public domain, it might show up again, uploaded by someone else
(though that uploader could not honestly claim to have created it.) The
avalon collection as a whole is not copyrighted, but improvements Viewpoint
makes in terms of indexing and viewing are the property of Viewpoint. We
intend to provide this service free of charge.
8) How do I access Avalon at Viewpoint. 1) http://www.viewpoint.com with
future viewing and indexing and… 2) ftp://avalon.viewpoint.com for the
basic archive 3) mirror sites (URLs to be announced soon) 9) How do we let
Viewpoint know what we think of their Avalon service and let them know what
improvements we'd like to see in the Avalon site? Please send suggestions to
mailto:avalon@viewpoint.com. We really are listening and you are the reason
we're doing this.
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