Manual Copyrights

[Barry A. Watzman]

It turns out that some of the people who are reproducing manuals [without permission] are also removing the copyright notices that were present in the originals from the reproduced manuals.


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From:  Kenneth Bakhaus [SMTP:bakken at MODEMPOOL.COM]
Sent:  Wednesday, April 21, 1999 1:30 PM
To:  HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject:  Manual Copyrights

I really don't want to add fuel to a burning fire but I did look at all the
manuals (Heath) that I have going back to 1960 and all regular
manuals(yellow cover) had copyright notices either on the cover or on the
first page. I also had two "paper" (1-4 sheets) manuals for the HDP-21A mic
and SBM102-1 mod which had no copyright notices. Surprisingly some of the
advertising lit I have from them also doesn't have the notices including
some with schematics.

As a holder of several patents and copyrights I believe strongly that
without permission of the owners of such intellectual property,
trademarked, copyrighted or patented articles should not be copied for
gain. On the other hand I don't have any problem with a portion being
reproduced for repair or personal purposes by an individual with no intent
of commercial gain.
73, Ken, K8PAO

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