On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Ashley Carder wrote: Unfortunately, Al really doesn't have any recourse here. First of all, as you allude, Al does not own the material. He owns the labor he put into scanning it all, as well as the bandwidth that is used to download the documents, but those are somewhat intangible. Since Al is not charging for the documents (he couldn't anyway since he doesn't own the copyright) and is in fact allowing for them to be freely downloaded, he really can't prevent people from doing this. If Al tried to sell the documents, or otherwise charge for access, he steps into a gray area that could get him into a lot of trouble if someone should decide to prosecute (as far as I can tell it would be a pretty open and shut case). The best tool we have is shame. Barry should be shamed for not sharing the revenues with Al. The idiot in Israel selling the CD as a regular product in his eBay store should be bombarded with hate mail. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]