1 Jun
1998
1 Jun
'98
1:37 p.m.
don't the copyright laws ban copying FOR PURPOSES
OF COMMERCIAL PROFIT?
and NOT for personal non-profit use? If so, then you or I are free to copy
someone else's manual FOR OUR OWN USE.
I think this not copying stuff because of copy rights has been carried
to a rediculous extreme. I know people that won't copy an ad brochure
because it's copyrighted. Well obviously the company that wrote it did so
for the purposes of having the public read it. Surely they won't object to
having even more copies made and even more people read it!
Sure, if somebody asked me for a single copy of a HK manual and I felt like
spending the next half hour at Kinko's, that is next to impossible to get
into trouble over. But I was talking about scanning and OCRing them and
putting them on the web where they belong. That would put whoever is selling
the dead-tree editions out of business, potentially, and I think they would
object to that.
I have put a copule non-heathkit manuals on my web page and gotten away
with it so far. But in neither case was it hurting anybody's sales, in
fact in one case it might improve them.
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