Jochen Rindt Memorial Trophy
Thruxton, 12 Apr 1971
With great regret, we have chosen to suspend the results section of OldRacingCars.com. Two pages were recently copied from OldRacingCars.com onto Wikipedia in contravention of ORC's clearly-stated copyright. Wikipedia is unwilling to remove the pages and takes the position that US copyright law allows its contributors to copy content from UK websites regardless of UK copyright law.
Until a resolution to this dispute can be found or until a registration system can be devised that protects the information from copying, it has been necessary to take this action. The sole purpose of ORC for nearly ten years has been to make information available without charge to the historic motor racing community. To have to withdraw thousands of race results due to the actions of a single Wikipedia contributor is deeply regretable but it is essential to protect the hard work and dedication of our many contributors. We will be back - when a solution is found.
For further details of the dispute or to offer any help to ORC in its hour of need, please contact Allen Brown at allen@oldracingcars.com.
Allen Brown 12 August 2010