Boxing Magazine Database, thoughts??

Go with it mate but not all at once, it isn't practical. One mag at a time.

 

all you have to do is go to "old boxing magazines on ebay" and start buying

 

I'd love it. I own a scant few Ring Mags from the 40s and they were gems. Today it's good for looking at color action photos and nothing more. An online database would save me from trying to bamboozle my way into an elderly collector's will.

 

Well I guess we can only open a massive can of worms. Copyright can be extended at the point of expiration, by the person(s) holding copyright.

As for printing the RING magazine in it's entirety, that's a curve ball to potentially avoid. Much is already duplicated over the net without problem. In most cases, images and text are simply not to be used in closed sessions, for personal gain etc. Hence any person making a single cent out of such a website is a complete mongrel.... and subject to any existing copyright laws and future legal issues.

Still worth looking into.

 

I agree that it is worth looking into. There is enough volunteers with rare material and i am sure many would be prepared to help with the scan work to make it work at least reasonably well. Obviously some magazines like the ring might create some difficulties, but there is still plenty of other magazines out there that can be scanned.

Actually, now i think about it, this is exactly what a website called LA84 project or something similar does. It funds these types of projects with money obtained from the grants around the time of the LA games. If some of the harder core posters like Bobby Sinn and Klompton were prepared to lend material, and others obviously would lend time, i think that somewhere like that could be contacted and i maintain that the project would be doable. Police Gazette magazines, i think, would be particularlly interesting to read.

 

Didnt Ring go bust in the 80s or 90s so surely the earlier magazines arnt actually owned by the current Ring ownership.

 

Ran across this thread today and thought I'd bump it up. Is this something anybody has thought about?

As one poster said, scanning is a pain. I've got very few mags left from my once decent collection (I let them go on eBay several years back. D'oh!), but I've scanned and made PDFs of a few issues of World / International Boxing from the seventies & early eighties. Scanning takes about ah hour per issue, and that's not scanning the pages with full-page ads.

Maybe if several people scanned a few mags from their collection, over time a decent online database could be created. 'Course I'm not sure of the legalities. I mean, Ring and Boxing News are the only mags still in business as far as I know.

If some sort of database isn't an option, what about trading like people used to do with fights on VHS and DVD in the pre-YouTube days? I might be willing to trade scanned mags, one for one, on a collector-to-collector basis. The PDFs I've done have come out to between 65 and 120 MB.

Thoughts?

 

Saga and True mags had some good boxing articles every now & then. I remember reading an article in Saga(?) back about Fall of 1959 (post Ingo vs FPatterson I) about some bad bass fighter down in Florida named Sonny Liston, which Champ Ingo's so-called big right hands would probably just bounce off Liston's chin.

 

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I believe Jet magazine put there entire back catalogue of magazines online. This was what first gave me the idea of pitching it to Nigel Collins of Ring. But as I said in 2011 when this thread started, no response. I wonder if 6 years on down the line the penny would drop and they would say, "Hey, how about we..."

 

I remember the old days when you would just buy back issues and wait 2-4 weeks for delivery.

I was such a boxing mag. addict that one time, when I was 15 and just getting into boxing, I opened the door to the mail truck that was parked in my neighbourhood and took out my boxing mag. back issue. They always put em in manila envelopes, so easy to spot. . I couldn't even wait to check the mail box. LOL.

 

Excellent idea!

 

It was a very big deal for me...it was exciting...couldn't wait for the mag to be in the mail!

 

The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, World Boxing, International Boxing, etc, just waiting in your mail box.

 

I go back so far with Ring Magazine that I used to get them in the mail wrapped in the brown paper that you would see in a brown paper bag. Still look forward to getting my monthly (well, 9 a year so almost monthly)