Hello.

I am making my own DVD project. I downloaded one of the custom-complied DVD's off of the Alaska server. I added another 50 titles and deleted a couple hundred. The main customization is that I've put together my own INDEX. I've grouped the works into about twenty genres of my own choosing and made it stylistically a bit more like your SciFi CD than the typical Alaska-server custom DVD.

I want to give it away for free to everyone I meet and encourage them to do the same. But how do I identify it?

The question of tact and/or legality is how should I identify the collection. Of course I would not modify any of the individual HTML files provided by PG for each book. I'm imagining if I were not to give PG enough credit for the compilation, I'll break one rule. It seems fair to give PG some kind of credit in my index for having created the book files themselves.

But isn't there a Tom Robbins novel where someone gets into trouble by indexing? I'm imagining if I were not to take enough responsibility for the compilation, I could get folks mad at PG. For example, I chose to put a book on Mormonism into a category of "RELIGION-- OTHER" instead of "RELIGION-- CHRISTIAN." Somehow with my search terms I ended up with a book on Eugenics, which I find quite evil, but I'm wondering if I would ever be able to find and delete every possible controversial title from my selection.

I was also considering putting the HTML code for your Paypal link on the index, is that good or bad?

And to sum it up, ultimately, if I make my own compilation DVD, would PG want it for distribution?

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Greg M. Johnson
http://pterandon.blogspot.com