18 Nov
1999
18 Nov
'99
9:04 a.m.
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]
Public Domain? Not if there's any indication of a
copyright on them.
That disclaimer you plan to write will not cut it if there is a copyright
on the documents.
That's correct, and thanks to pressure from the likes of disney
the duration of US copyrights these days is incredibly long.
FWIW, I've been trying to get DG to provide copyright release for
prints, diagnostic listings, diagnostic binaries and the like for
Novas and the 16-bit Eclipse line. email, fax and voice messages
go in, nothing comes out. Similarly with Ball, who once upon a
time owned Decision Consulatants, who manufatured a very nice
diablo 33 controller for the Nova bus.
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 :-(
Best,
Chris
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Chris Kennedy
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