Empire of Dirt: time to call time on commercial archaeology in Northern Ireland?

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I must admit purdin everytime I go down this copyright, vat taxman route it does feel like I am trolling on this forum. Why hosty does not just ban me for life rather than every few months i dont know. Its always this same cause. I watch the threads brew my blood begins to boil and I bloody well cant help myself. God I have tried to stop but its just that its as if I am in a parrallel universere and you lot are evil aliens trying to screw my universe up. This one I spotted from the off. An ni alien has come up with a world bleatting idea that commercial archaeology does not work but that something called publication apparently does, to be fair they did not seem to push the web publication bit that much but its every public service curators pension grabbing paradiam. Everything I write, I rewrite several times, I try to my dambest to be polite but it just slips out. I say simple things like what archaeologists do is create copyright, as soon as that gets out madness just persues....well dino wets knickers...

To answer your question alligations with questions and allegations are you saying that there are no things that are are hosted on the web that get royalties? I am just looking for some principles. Web sites seem to be charging for music and books, lots of things get sold, HERs charge. I am currently going through the very odd experience of other people putting my work up on oasis. Oasis was initionally sold to me as an electronic storage facility. They sent me things to sign over rights so that oasis not only could keep a copy of my work in their electronic valut but they also wanted to give it away on the web. I so did not sign the document and I did not up load any documents. The curators made me get an oasis number for the wsi and fill out some very stupid oasis form. Well I did I uploaded one-my first sole selfemployed one which I had done pre oaisis. They said no they could not up load it because it was pre oasis. I was happy with that although recently they have emaild saying that they have changed their minds. Now where do they get their pensions from and who is going around and photocopying my work and uploading it on the web without me getting a penny. (obviously you dont think that I should get anything, be jolly happy with the apparent freeness of it all, this warm felling that I have made the ex-existance of a ditch under some foundation available to people who think everything should be free although they dont say how this helps me when I feel poor.

I dont expect much out of dino as there has been no reply to two questions about whether dino is involved with the production of archaeological copyright. I only have asked because it would be interesting to know what if anything is written about it in dinos contract.

I do agree though with dino and I suspect of bob and that is

Paper publication is still the way to go

but the reasons are to do with vat exemption on books and maps

this is realy boring http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPorta...P110_10900

where it would be interesting to find out if archaeological "maps" ie my graphic sheets fell into standard rated commercial or "represent the natural or artificial features of countries, towns, seas, the heavens, etc are zero-rated"

[B]3.10 Maps, charts and topographical plans

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Supplies of all printed maps and charts designed to represent the natural or artificial features of countries, towns, seas, the heavens, etc are zero-rated. They can be printed on paper or other material (such as cloth) and in the form of single or folded sheets or a collection of such sheets bound together in book form (for example, an atlas).
But supplies of any of these are standard-rated:

• plans or drawings for industrial, architectural, engineering, commercial or similar purposes, in any format