Anne:
This is not the first time SHARE has dug its heals in on these types
of doc.
Its been years but SHARE also refused to let go of DASD FUTURES doc.
I gave up and finally found one of the authors and he gave it to me.
Ed
On Aug 26, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
[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).
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