But I'm going to flip the property right question around, and ask the good rocketeers of YORF - if sharing out of print Peter Alway pages is wrong, please explain how Ye Olde Rocket Plans is different.
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Charles,

Great question. The follow-up question is: to what is Estes/Centuri/Enerjet asserting a IP right? The names? The designs? The illustrations for the instructions?

Here's a fun example:

The Arcas name is not protected, it being the name for the Little Dipper by way of Greek mythology (part of the original werewolf story).

The sounding rocket design itself belonged to the Atlantic Research Corporation which still exists as far as I know. (correction: now part of AeroJet)

I could be wrong but I seem to recall the design for the model was submitted by someone in a Design of the Month contest and cleaned up and turned into a kit, K-26 Arcas.

So what exactly is Estes'es?

And is the IP a copyright, a patent or a trademark?

Obviously, some of the other kits don't have so many problems, but you see what I'm getting at.

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