Dear Bob,
By USA law, there is an implied copyright on items that are produced by an
individual or company. i.e. written, drawn, photographed , etc. In other
words you do not have to go out and register the item and have it
copyrighted. The reason you want to do it, is for added legal
protection/insurance. i.e. written music , painting etc.
Lets say for example I take a great photo, and some one gets a copy of it.
If he/she lies and says it's his and he copyrights it , then I would have to
prove that he stole my work and profited from it.
Copyrights do expire after a certain amount of time. This does not give
someone the right to go copy it and sell it. A corporation will usually not
go after a small time guy like NikonDave. It's not worth their time.
9 times out of ten if you write to the manufacturer they can fax you copies
of manuals for a service fee.
Sam ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sull <w8imo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Nikon Dave is back
>Samuel Morales wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Nikon Dave is back. I thought he was suspended from ebay. It's a
F---ing
>> joke. The guy has a plethora of Xeroxed copies of manuals on ebay for
sale.
>> I guess it's OK to do it. So, if you have anything you want to copy,
just
>> copy it and sell it on ebay...
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>>
>> Sam
>>
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>Are manuals copywrited?
>
>Bob
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