About the content of this site, which concerns all the files on http://www.dunwich.org.
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The site was previously located (from 24th April 1996 to March 1997) on the
LAAS
(CNRS, France) server, LAAS let me access its computer
system because I was collaborating with them on a research and publication
project.
In March 1997, LAAS decided to shutdown all the personal pages of its
server.
The LAAS
decision to close the personal sites was caused by legal problems that lead
the directors to enforce the 1996 CNRS decision to forbid all personnel
documents on the web pages of the LAAS server. This decision makes sense, and
I totally supported it, every Internet citizen already having at that time the facility to be
published by free web space providers. It was actually one of the first (if not the one) case that concerns copyright violation over the Internet in France, and I believe it is remembered as the Jacques Prevert Affair in the little first-time webmaster and internet-jurists communauty.
This happened during the
Mygale crisis,
and the closure went unnoticed. It is difficult to imagine that today,
but French web pages at that time where quite seldom, and the closure
of all the personal web pages housed in the LAAS laboratory could have
been notice among the french web-users commuauty, if it was not for the
Mygale crisis. Within the list closed sites was the first French web
page about the british series The prisoner, which of course was quickly to reopen later, and is still online today.
Concerning the Mygale crisis, this is another French web story that I
do not have time to tell here except in a very short form: Mygale was a
educational french project to host personal web pages leaded by
University of Jussieu in Paris. The access was closed by Renater, the
national ISP of the French universities and research centers, for
reasons not clear to me (arguing it was not educational), and all the
closed sites had to relocate. French web free providers where not as
common as today at that time, and it had been considered by many as a
serious strike to the then fragile emergent group of French-writing
webmasters and web-authors.
I then moved my professional documents to the ENSEEIHT site and my personal documents to Mygale. Later on, when my Mygale space went full, I oppened an account on Chez.com, and I eventually inserted there my professional documents to Later on, when I left ENSEEIHT.
Mygale
became Multimania, which started to slowly decay into a goulish
commer$ial web-space provider that I strongly recommand every one to
avoid.
My main hostilities toward Multimania comes from their behavior towards
their
users. They forced all users to change the domain name from mygale.org
to multimania.com by cessing DNS hosting. We had to change both URLs
and E-mail addresses. They cancelled mail-redirection and pop access to
limit users to web-only interfaces. These are the worse thing they
could possibly do. Much later, they reinstalled feature-limited mail
redirection for an alternative E-mail address and rehosted the mygale
DNS name. At one point, every user discovered commercial pop-up windows
on their homepages, and even commercial tags that where sticked over
the web page, hiding the original context. All these annoyment did not
went unnoticed by all webmasters and visitors as it started general
webmaster strike and you can get a feeling of what happened from this French article from 1999 in transfert.net, with cache here if article no longer available on transfert server (cache recorded July 2003).
After one URL change and two E-mail address changes we had to suffer, I decided to abandon them to their misery and get my own domain name in 2000. I registered at Gandi.net, I have the DNS hosting, web-hosting and E-mail wosting at pair.com.
You are here on dunwich.org, and I hope you will feel comfortable. As they say: me Casa y su casa; do not hesitate one second for comments, corrections, ressources, help, reviewing, links, partnership, insults, money... I also might some room for you if you have cool document you wish to host. Just please avoid commercial sollicitation.
En conformité avec la loi du 21/06/2004 sur la confiance dans l'économie numérique (LCEN), je déclare que je suis, Baptiste Marcel, à la fois l'éditeur et le directeur de publication, et que les informations requises d'identification sont indiquées dans la page contact.
Now for the copyrights: there are a lot of resources about the TV series on this site but this is not an official web site for the TV series included on this site. All the original images and the look and feel of the television shows are the copyright of their original owners and are published here in compliance to the droit de citation, CPI, french law, in the sense that une photo extraite d'un document audiovisuel constitue une citation. Reproduction of such material on this site is intended for illustration and documentation purposes only, in homage to these famous and great shows. The owners of this site have no connection with any television broadcaster nor any editor and derive no income from this site (halas). All rights are reserved by their original copyrights holders for these documents.
Althought this site is owned by Baptiste Marcel alone, it contains
documents from other contributors, each of whose being legally
responsible for the information he contributes in the site.
The DNS hoster, Internet
providers, computer manufacturers are not responsible for any of these
documents at any level.
All these series look much better on TV, and we
strongly suggests you inspect carefully your TV guide and your video/DVD provider
directories to enable you to watch them whenever they are available.
The images and texts produced here are in compliance with the Code de la propriété intellectuelle (copyright laws, French law). They are either inserted here with explicit authorisation of their author, or in compliance with droit de citation or revue de presse bylaws (fair-use), or distributed within the effect of a free license, or within some other unmentionned authorization procedure.
Unless specified otherwise in the text, or in the tags of the images, all texts and images of my own (marked BM) are released under the associative license LA-BM-RD-NC-AS-WL-BM. Contact me to get detailed license information for undocumented images or texts. I am currently in the process of documenting the undocumented documents of this web-site.
For the images, refer to their attached tags to find their ownership and license information. The said tags may be ALT, meta-tags or dii (the ddi tag of an image can be read in the file descript.ion in same directory). For all images under a copyleft license (such as GNU, GPL...), they are considered distributed as a separate document, redistributed with the same license, with required license information in the attached tags. The texts of the said licenses can be found in the Wikipedia.
associative license LA-BM-RD-NC-AS-WL-BM : definition
These documents are freely available and you are free to download them and
keep them as long as you wish. You can use them for non-commercial purposes,
including web pages, fanzines, personal tee-shirts, sex-arousing, gigantic posters, pins..., as long as you
respect the documents (higher-quality versions of our pictures may be available)
and credit the author properly (links to this page is necessary for
Internet use).
I£ you intend a more comer$ial u$e, or if you need any more
information, please contact us (See contact below).
So what ? I'm French.
I know that this english is rubbish so please help me and send me any corrections, as well as how to write the the sentences in the correct way when they are really messed-up.
Do not be shy or afraid of sending me an E-mail. I love to receive E-mail (as long as it is not commercial sollicitation), and when I am fed up with them, I will remove this notice.