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May 15th 05, 12:20 PM
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Hate to be a wet blanket Well you are "Phil Nelson" wrote in message ... Hate to be a wet blanket, but how do you know that half of the stuff on BAMA is not pirated and should never have been posted there in the first place? Not all old schematics & manuals are in the public domain. For instance, SAMS Technical Publishing, http://www.samswebsite.com/photofacts.html , is still alive and well, and they have an understandable interest in keeping people from distributing free, unauthorized copies of their Photofacts to the world. Just because you buy a copy of something, scan it, and upload to the Internet, doesn't mean that it is "yours" to give away to the world. If I scan the latest Tom Clancy novel and post his book on the Internet, I am violating his copyright, pure and simple. The only exceptions would be if : [A] I have Tom Clancy's permission to distribute free copies of his latest novel on the Internet, or, [b] I can prove in a court of law that Tom's copyright has expired or been abandoned for some reason. If I don't have [A] or [b] on my side, then Tom kicks my butt and closes me down. That said, I'm a supporter & lover of sites such as BAMA and www.nostalgiaair.org , which supply valuable information to people around the world. I have used these sites, and pointed fellow collectors to them. But I don't download or upload anything that I think is not authorized. So, be careful about getting too outraged because somebody might be making an unauthorized copy of your uploaded copy which might also be unauthorized. You never owned the copyright in the first place. Here are some links with more information about copyright: http://www.whatiscopyright.org/ http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html And, the ultimate authority: http://www.copyright.gov/ Regards, Phil Nelson |
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