@Angie MacEwen wrote:
I think you are all missing the point!!!! CSC is NOT SKUSA or IKF or CIK or FIK or any of the other organisations! So why would you want to use their rule book??
Jon, Isn’t that pretty close to what I said?
The whole point is to run a series that consists of rules and classes that the competitors want. I know we only raced one race with you guys but what I saw was a great bunch of people racing what they wanted to race and having fun,
AND let’s keep it that way!
it just needs some refinement. Keep the rules as thay were last year just add some minor refinements and explanations, and most of all enforce them!!!
One thing that you may not realize is that our rules as they were last year WERE SKUSA and IKF rules, with the exceptions listed in our class rules, plus a bunch of other exceptions that were left unwritten. So, it does make sense to use those as a starting point, and modify until most are in agreement. As far as the enforcement of the new rules, I think that is one area that most everyone is in agreement on.
We can, and ultimately would have to use some mish-mash of rules from at least 2 orgs – SKUSA and somebody else (IKF/WKA). However, if we go about it in such a away that we take Jr1 rules from IKF, lets say, and just modify the weights, copy everything over to our own document and call it ours then we’re in for some trouble. Any rule set you can mention, whether you can download it for free, or have to pay 50 bucks for it, is covered under international copyright laws. That means if we do anything with that copy without the owner’s expressed permission we leave certain individuals open to a crushing law suit. If it can be demonstrated that we took our rules from them and put our own endorsment on it without permission we’d loose. Win or loose you still have to answer the suit.
You may also expose the oganization whose rules we borrowed liable in a civil court. There has been such action, or so I’m told.
Then who will protect Angie when IKF or whoever sends in their lawyers. CSC isn’t a formal organization and can offer no protection to those acting in its name. Sponsors could be named and speaking as a sponsor, I would not like to be named in a lawsuit.
There are plenty of good reasons to formally align with one or more sanctioning bodies. Having a legal set of rules to work from is only one.
Hooking up with SKUSA, IKF, or WKA doesn’t mean we have to go lock-step with their rules, but there is a right way to go about it.