eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:09 PM
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> Clearly a scanner can't hold copyright in the original content.  That
> leaves compilation copyright.  But it's hard to see how that would
> apply when the material published is simply a full page by page scan
> of the original.
>
> I have a scanned flight manual (US DOD publication, so no copyright on
> the original -- so clearly there are no issues with selling the
> scans).  The scanner put a copyright notice on the scanned file.  I
> can't see how that is valid.  (Hm, that may explain why I saw a copy
> of that CD sold by someone else.  Impolite, yes.  Illegal?  I wonder.)
>
> Hm, I wonder if the same comment applies to reprints of old books --
> from Lindsay Publications, Dover Press, etc., other than new
> introductions and the like of course.
>
>       paul

Most all of the manuals I have posted on my site are scanned by others.
Most of the manuals I scan I send to others and either don't post on my site
or post them via mirroring.

I scan manuals that would otherwise be unavailable and either with the
copyright holders permission or from copyright holders that can not be
found.

Yes some copyright holders are available and have given permission to one
degree or another including Alpha-Micro, Cromemco, and DRI (UCSD has not
given specific permission but they used files off my site to put on their
site :) ).

I have not posted manuals from other sites (excepting mirroring the whole
site) but I have seen a certain amount of manuals included in my mirrors
that came from bitsavers and others.

I have always given permission for others to post manuals I scan and do not
require any sort of acknowledgement with the exception of the Alpha-Micro
material that Alpha-Micro insists on giving individual permission.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com