CD Direkt 1995 #6/CDD_6_95.ISO/cdd/fonts/50fnts_2/vendor.doc

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- NO CD publishing without publishing authorisation (see below).

- NO distribution authorisation without a sample of your catalog.

- MAGAZINES and BOOKS complimentary or bundled disks distribution is
regulated. See special provisions bellow.

This font/program, created by Michel Bujardet for Match Software, is
copyrighted property.

This software is Match Software's intellectual property.  Any distribution
(publication) for any fee, even though presented as "distribution cost", must
be given written permission prior to any distribution. Permission must also be
given for "free disks", such as used as incentive for sale of magazines,
books, or any other product. For on-disk distribution, we do require a copy of
your catalog and price list before giving any authorization.

In general, this authorization is given very easily. However, we will use any
legal mean at our disposal against unauthorized distribution.

                          On-Line distribution

Any on-line distribution is granted limited permission immediatly, as long as
you obide by the following rules :

1- The archive and it's content must not be modified in any form. If you wish
to use an archive system different from the one we used, please do not repack
your own version, but contact us for the appropriate version

2 - Please use our FILE_ID.DIZ description enclosed in the archive. If you had
comments or reservations, please add them at the end of our description.
Nothing is ruder than to find so called "ratings" from sysops with rude
comments about our software, when the sysop did not even bother to describe
the fonts. It should be nice enough to provide intellectual property for free,
without incuring nasty comments on top of it.

3 - It is impossible for any shareware author to visit every on-line
distributor. In order to receive our regular updates and new fonts, please
send us the submission form at the end of this document.

Special comment for ZiffNet : we have observed on several occasion
unacceptable comments from your software reviewers about our fonts. You may
conduct your business the way you feel it is appropriate. However, we do not
grant you the right to distribute our software before you submit the
description you intend to place on our font. Any failure to submit this
material falls into the same rules as described for magazines, and we will
seek the same compensations if you decided to go forward without our consent.

                       Floppy disk distribution

If you are currently distributing shareware on floppy disks, please send us
the submission form at the end of this document, with a copy of your catalog,
with any disk for your collection that ressembles the one you plan to put our
font on, for our evaluation. In general, you will receive our authorisation to
distribute this font on return mail.

Although many shareware librarian prefer their own forms and agreement, we
strictly require you fill up the form at the end of this document, and send it
to us with any required material, in order to consider granting you any
publishing authorisation. Any eventual distribution agreement of your own will
probably be thoroughsly edited or amended before we agree on it, anyways.

                           Decadent CD-ROM ?

Through several and repeated experiences, we are sorry to have determined that
CD-ROM shareware distribution is often doing more harm than good to the
authors. People who acquire fonts on CD-ROM have absolutely no idea of the
time and efforts it took us to create them, polish them and altogether energy
spent into creation. Most of the time, CD-ROM publishers do not even care to
really explain the shareware principle. And when they do, it is in exactly the
same manner some bars advertise California law about alcoholism : in the
closet, very very far from the light. There is no chance for a font, would it
be the most original and all that, to be properly recognized, when totally
lost in the middle of megabytes of junk.

Therefore THIS FONT CANNOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BE PUT ON CD-ROM without
prior distribution authorisation.

In order to get the right to distribute this font on CD, you must first
provide us with a CD taken from the same collection the font will be published
in, and your catalog and price list. This CD will help us understand how the
font can be best presented to the public through your CD collection. We will
eventually provide you with a special version, meant for this publication, and
technically suited for that purpose.

You must be conscious that the agreement we may eventually grant you will
follow all principles and uses already observed by the book publishing
community. this implies, among other things, that we require you not to modify
the on-disk description of our material, as we communicate it to you, as well
as the files as they are given to you for publication. The published CD
containing our material must be sent to us for our record as soon as it is
available.

Although many shareware librarian prefer their own forms and agreement, we
strictly require you fill up the form at the end of this document, and send it
to us with any required material, in order to consider granting you any
publishing authorisation. Any eventual distribution agreement of your own will
probably be thoroughsly edited or amended before we agree on it, anyways.

                             Amazing Magazines

More and more magazines use shareware as a mean to boost their sales. Either
by inserting a complimentary disk in their copies, or by distributing
shareware, on-disk or otherwise. It is a terrific idea, to help users discover
shareware. It is also a terrific commercial idea, because inserting a disk
most of the time boosts issues sales in a 50 to 70% ratio. Which does not mean
registrations will explode in the same manner. Especially when the enclosed
software is not even covered in the paper issue. How come a magazine will
boost millions into it's cash register, and the authors, who after all provide
the substance of what is quite the equivalent to thousand words long stories,
get nothing ?

The very same problem seems to arise nowadays with books as with magazines.
More and more publishers seem to consider electronic software as a freebee,
when at the same time negociating fortunes of publishing rights in the
electronic super highways and multimedia arenas. Book writers do get payed for
the tremendous time and efforts spent into reviewing and selecting shareware,
team workers probably get payed to follow through and harass authors for
publishing authorisations, and users see in big letters everywhere how
generous is the publishing house, in providing software for free.

It is quite outrageous for reputable publishers to act that way. Would they be
seing some of their material used by others in such an unrespectful way, no
doubt they would strongly react !

We require the same from book publishers as from magazines : please fill up
the submission form at the end this document, and send it to us with a sample
of your magazine, or any book from the same collection as the one you plan to
bundle our font with. If you eventually get authorised to publish our font,
you must send us a copy of the book or the magazine with the accompanying disk
for our record as soon as it is available.

Confidence does not mean blank check.

This document is placed in the distribution archive of this font as a basis
for any good will business relationship. You cannot miss it or otherwise
pretend you did not see it in the archive. It does outline very precisely how
we intend to conduct our relationship with potential distributors of this
shareware package, wherever in the world and whenever in time. Simply by
possessing reading this document, and therefore reading it, you are bound by
it's good will and gentlemen agreement business proposition. Although this
font is proposed at no cost to individual computer users, it is not at all a
public domain. You cannot therefore publish it, edit it or otherwise
distribute it without our prior knowledge and consent.

You may have got in the past authorisation to publish or distribute another
one of our shareware font package. You must be aware each font does constitue
a different product and intellectual property item, and that any agreement
over any other font does not apply to the present one. Whatever prior
authorisation you got, you must re-apply for authorisation to distribute the
present font/program.

We believe simply asking to know where and how our intellectual property is
sensible and normal. It follows rules constantly observed by honest publishing
houses worldwide, from United Kingdom to Alaska or Australia in the same
manner. We hope as publishers yourselves, and probably owning intellectual
property of your own, you will respect our point of view and the terms of this
agreement.

However, should you decide not to comply with these simple rules and publish,
use or distribute any of our fonts or programs without our prior consent, you
must be warned and agree that we will seek $10,000 U.S. or local monetary
equivalent for each font or program fraudulently published, distributed or
used, in any competent courts of law, as a standard penalty for breaking the
present agreement. This applies to any form of fraud touching our intellectual
property, from any individual or organisation, would it be non-profit.

Please do not get offended by all these precautions. We only want to insure
our distributors do their job correctly, properly update the fonts and provide
the support customers deserve, while they profit from a honest intermediary
role, which is perfectly fair. And make sure we do profit too, in the process.
Properly registered shareware distributors, BBS and others will receive
regular updates and new archives of our current offers, along with a proper
authorization of distribution.

We thank honest shareware distributors for their job : they are an
indispensable link between authors and the public. Let us simply make sure all
benefit from the common good.


MATCH SOFTWARE
8205 Santa Monica Blvd. # 1-205
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046-5912
Phone [phone]
Fax  [phone]
Compuserve : 73267,1701
America Online : MichelChap

CDs or any other material sent to us for any reason will not be returned. We
will accept no charge for any of these material.

West Hollywood, March 3, 1995


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LL             SUBMISSION FORM FOR DISTRIBUTORS & PUBLISHERS

This submission form is meant to help you make sure you send us all the
necessary material, in order for us to enter you in our regular update and new
release disks program. We want to make sure users and distributors alike
benefit from the highest possible level of service. Thank-you for your help.
Wether or not you provide your own agreement proposal, which is perfectly
welcome, you MUST fill up the following and send it along.

COMPANY :___________________________________________________________
CONTACT ; NAME : _____________________________________________________
ADDRESS : ___________________________________________________________
CITY, STATE, ZIP : _____________________________________________________
PHONE : ______________________________ FAX : __________________________
BBS Access number (and passcode if necessary) : ____________________________
Type of supported computers : [] Windows [] Mac [] Other : _________________
Type of distribution : [] Floppy disk [] On-line [] CD (see below)
                       [] Magazine/book (see below) [] Other________________

(DO NOT FORGET to include your catalog and price list if you are a commercial
distributor, or the access number if you are a BBS. Thank-you.)

                            CD PUBLICATION

[] We want to publish the following fonts/programs on CD-ROM :
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Number of fonts _____ Number of projected printouts of the CD ___________

[] Please find enclosed our sample catalog
[] Please find enclosed a CD closest to the one we plan to publish your
material on, for your evaluation
[] We will make sure to send you a free sample of the published CD, as soon as
it is available.

I have read and understand all the conditions of this document.

Corporation : ________________________Name : ___________________________
Date : _______________ Signature : ______________________________________



                         MAGAZINE OR BOOK DISTRIBUTION

[] We want to publish the following fonts/programs with our printed material :
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Number of fonts _____ Number of projected printouts ___________

[] Please find enclosed our book/magazine containing the same kind of disk we
want to place your font/program on
[] We will make sure to send you a free sample of the published magazine/book
accompnied with i's disk, as soon as it is available.

I have read and understand all the conditions of this document.

Name : ___________________________
Date : _______________ Signature : ______________________________________



                             MATCH SOFTWARE
                     8205 Santa Monica #1-205
                   West Hollywood, CA 90046-5912
                              [phone]
                           Fax [phone]