20 Apr
2004
20 Apr
'04
12:32 p.m.
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Re: Simple Apple Questions
Seems to me that if the book is out of print and the machine a
long-discontinued one that you'd be on safe ground sharing scans of
reference material for free. Apple's lawyers, never a shy group, will
certainly let you know if they object. I've got a couple of hardbound Apple
reference manuals here too - for the ImageWriter LQ and for the LaserWriter
II and would be glad to scan portions for anyone needing such info.
Seth Lewin
I have the Apple][ reference manual and a whole
pile of other Apple reference
books and material scanned ... I'd like to make this available, but I have
not
done so due to the copyright question - posting a published book which was
sold
on it's own merit seems less legit than manuals which came with hardware.
> Anyone have any thoughts/experiences on this? 
21 Apr
21 Apr
5:55 a.m.
Seth Lewin wrote:
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Seems to me that if the book is out of print and the machine a
long-discontinued one that you'd be on safe ground sharing scans of
reference material for free. Apple's lawyers, never a shy group, will
certainly let you know if they object. I've got a couple of hardbound Apple
reference manuals here too - for the ImageWriter LQ and for the LaserWriter
II and would be glad to scan portions for anyone needing such info.
Seth Lewin
.
There's a thread going on over in the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup right
now started by someone who had his eBay auctions canceled. He was
auctioning Appleworks GS manuals; the only idea anyone could come up
with for why they were canceled is that Apple (who requested the
cancellations) sees selling the manuals without the software as
promotion of piracy - even of software long-discontinued and unavailable.
It wouldn't surprise me if the lawyers adopted a similar stance on
scanned manuals, even ones not tied to a particular software product.
--
Mike
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