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If someone lawfully downloads something on the internet that is not
protected and sells it, and another person calls him a thief, or infringes upon his right to sell that item, then the person who is harmed is the seller - who in turn has a cause of action against the accuser for libel and interference with the right to sell. Be careful when accusing someone of being a thief, or they may take your money from you. Colin K7FM |
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COLIN LAMB wrote: If someone lawfully downloads something on the internet that is not protected and sells it, and another person calls him a thief, or infringes upon his right to sell that item, then the person who is harmed is the seller - who in turn has a cause of action against the accuser for libel and interference with the right to sell. Be careful when accusing someone of being a thief, or they may take your money from you. Colin K7FM Oh come off it Colin. We all know that none of us has the real rights to this material. What I'm saying is that if "I" go to the trouble to scan in a 200 page manual and then upload for free use by others, I have done most of the work and if someone downloads this work and sells it they are stealing my work. In that regard the seller is a thief. Maybe not in the legal sense but in a moral sense he is. THIEF he is and THIEF I'll call him. |
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;-p wrote:
COLIN LAMB wrote: If someone lawfully downloads something on the internet that is not protected and sells it, and another person calls him a thief, or infringes upon his right to sell that item, then the person who is harmed is the seller - who in turn has a cause of action against the accuser for libel and interference with the right to sell. Be careful when accusing someone of being a thief, or they may take your money from you. Colin K7FM Oh come off it Colin. We all know that none of us has the real rights to this material. What I'm saying is that if "I" go to the trouble to scan in a 200 page manual and then upload for free use by others, I have done most of the work and if someone downloads this work and sells it they are stealing my work. In that regard the seller is a thief. Maybe not in the legal sense but in a moral sense he is. THIEF he is and THIEF I'll call him. What about the professional repair guy who downloads a copy of the manual you scanned, and then **shudder** asks top dollar to repair a piece of equipment using that manual? That manual has enabled him to make the repair, and he has, in essence sold that manual to his customer. I bet he has made more off of the free manual from BAMA than any of the ebay merchants. (OBTW, I have been that guy.) If you have conditions on how the manual you scanned is to be used, don't make the manual publically available on BAMA. Go off and sell it yourself! -Chuck |
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On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:39:45 UTC, ";-p"
wrote: COLIN LAMB wrote: If someone lawfully downloads something on the internet that is not protected and sells it, and another person calls him a thief, or infringes upon his right to sell that item, then the person who is harmed is the seller - who in turn has a cause of action against the accuser for libel and interference with the right to sell. Be careful when accusing someone of being a thief, or they may take your money from you. Colin K7FM Oh come off it Colin. We all know that none of us has the real rights to this material. What I'm saying is that if "I" go to the trouble to scan in a 200 page manual and then upload for free use by others, I have done most of the work and if someone downloads this work and sells it they are stealing my work. In that regard the seller is a thief. Maybe not in the legal sense but in a moral sense he is. THIEF he is and THIEF I'll call him. That's a little harsh. I've tried to download stuff off BAMA. Success varies. If someone with more patience than I manages the download, perhaps doing it at the wee hours, there is value in that. Granted it seems unfair but I don't have to pay them, I can stay up and try for an "opening". Where there is an ethical problem (as in, ethics among intellectual property thieves), is that the sellers on eBay aren't saying, "I got this off the public Ham Radio manual site and burned it to CD for you. Please bid appropriately." and "Those of you who don't have broadband or perhaps want the convenience of CD's will appreciate this service." I'm not saying that it's wrong to propagate manuals for 30 year old radios. I recognize that it is outside the law but you lawyers out there, libraries have copy machines in them, even the Library of Congress. Clearly the law is wrong about intellectual property rights in this area. de ah6gi, spiffing up Collins 75S-1 Serial Number 55, previously owned by Dave. -- |
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In article . com,
;-p wrote: | Oh come off it Colin. We all know that none of us has the real rights | to this material. What I'm saying is that if "I" go to the trouble to | scan in a 200 page manual and then upload for free use by others, I | have done most of the work Actually, the authors of the manual have done most of the work, NOT YOU. Don't get me wrong ... I find resources like yours to be extremely useful, and I'm glad you do it. And let me say `thanks for doing it', because while I don't think I've used any manuals from your site yet, I've used manuals from other similar sites, and I'm glad they were there, and may use your site at some point in the future ... But to claim that somebody else is stealing your work is a bit odd, because unless the manual is really old, you are legally stealing it from the authors. In the US, if a manual was written after 1964, the odds are that it's still covered by copyright (the only way it wouldn't be is if it was explicitly entered into the public domain.). If it's written from 1923 to 63, it'll still be covered if the copyright was renewed. Few are, but it's possible. Granted, the manufacturer may be out of business. Or they may not sell the manual anymore (as is very often the case.) And they may not mind if you scan it and put it online -- it helps out their customers, after all. But even if the manufacturer is out of business and you can't even find who owns a given copyright, that doesn't mean that nobody owns it, and it doesn't mean that you can legally scan it and give it away as your own. Odds are that nobody will mind, but it may bite you at some time in the future. | and if someone downloads this work and sells it they are stealing my | work. In that regard the seller is a thief. Maybe not in the legal | sense but in a moral sense he is. THIEF he is and THIEF I'll call | him. He's no more a thief than you are, if the manual is still covered by copyright. In that case, both him and you are `stealing' from the owner of the copyright. Odds are that the owner doesn't mind, but unless you have written permission, it may bite you at some point in the future. As was suggested, if you want to claim copyright on your scans, either do more than just scan them -- clean them up, add searchable indexes, OCR them and correct the results, etc., or do what I suggested -- add a little poem at the end about ham radio or something. Either one could give you some claim of copyright on the final result and could give you legal recourse against whomever is violating _that_ copyright. (Of course, I'm no lawyer. You may want to talk to a lawyer about it ...) Or you can just scream until you're blue in the face about the THIEVES STEALING YOUR WORK! It won't change anything, but maybe it'll make you feel better. -- Doug McLaren, It's not easy being green. It takes way more food coloring than you'd think. |
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