Chris Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure which manuals you're talking about, but there's a chance that >you could be the copyright holder. This issue came up on the Spotmatic >list, where a list member was selling .pdf manuals that he scanned >himself. His response was that it was not illegal to do that, and I quote >from his reply to me: > >"Excuse me, I stand corrected. Chris, you are correct: there is >mention of a 70-year term in Copyright law. But it applieds to works >created after January 1, 1978. Here is the relevant section of >copyright law as pertains to the manuals in question: > >� 304..Duration of copyright:Subsisting copyrights 6 >(a)COPYRIGHTS IN THEIR FIRST TERM ON JANUARY 1,1978.^� >(1)(A)Any copyright,in the first term of which is subsisting on >January 1, >1978,shall endure for 28 years from the date it was originally >secured." > >So if you have manuals published before 1978 (K-series, for example), you >seem to be perfectly within your rights to sell reproductions of them. >After 1978, of course, you run into legal problems.
Fascinating. All the manuals I have online (except for the ME Super) are pre-1978! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
