[email protected] (John McKown) writes: > That sounds good to me. But, me being me, I would caution your friend > in one regard. That manual is most likely copyrighted. If it is, then > scanning it and uploading it _might_ result in prosecution. Especially > if the copyright holder objects. Given today's litigious society, and > the actions of some "copyright trolls", I would be _very_ cautious.
I ran into a little of this trying to get SHARE LSRAD report up on bitsaver, it took really long time to get somebody at SHARE to grant approval. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/share/ Copyright Act of 1976 (went into effect 1978) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976 previously had been 28yrs ... which would have expired ... but the change made it author's lifetime plus 50yrs (if corporations are people, then they might live forever). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
