18 Nov
1999
18 Nov
'99
3:25 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
Upon the date 03:04 PM 11/18/99 -0800, Chris Kennedy
said something like:
Must be some docs for a government contract prepared outside of the
contract at Rolm's (or the prime contractor's) expense. Often, anything
printed under a government contract is not copyrighted.
I suspect that the distinction is whether the material was developed at
government expense rather than who printed it. After all, it is the
content that is copyrighted, not the manual itself.
- don
Christian Fandt wrote:
>
> Upon the date 03:47 PM 11/18/99 -0500, Jason McBrien said something like:
> >I am starting a documentation project to collect hardware manuals and
> >technical documents for all different types of old computers.
-- snip
--
If you
find Government printed computer manuals you should be out of
trouble. But what computers that we'd have in our collections would have
gov't. issue manuals?
Not even the ones for my Rolm 16xx stuff. Rolm's copyright
persists into the US Government documents :-( Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
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