[Boatanchors] BAMA Manuals on Ebay

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

AH7I wrote:

>BAMA can copyright the BAMA pages. i.e. the index and presentation of the
>archived material. It may not and does not copyright the archived
>material.
>
>The copyright notices on the archived documents are preserved, as they are
>supposed to be when copyrighted work is maintained in a public archive.
>Public archives are allowed under US copyright law.
>
>73,
>-Bob
>  
>
Ken could easily (time consuming, but not difficult) add a watermark to 
the pages saying something along the lines of  "This manual downloaded 
FREE from BAMA...." etc. It would melt into the background pretty 
easily, wouldn't need to be on every page, and can't be removed without 
some major, time consuming surgery. Granted, it wouldn't stop the 
slimebags who make money off the efforts of others who are trying to 
help for free, but after a few people buy manuals they could be 
downloading free, I suspect word would spread. Maybe it could be done 
whenever a new manual is added to the list.

Seems to me another guy from Michigan (cw-man perhaps?) was doing this 
with the R-390A Y-2-K manual but was called on it by those who put it 
together and stopped. Not sure how that came out.

There will always be some low-life type out there waiting to capitalize 
on the work of others for personal profit. If no one tries to stand up 
to them or prevent/deter it, what's to stop them?

It's probably a good idea to block these rug merchants by ID too, if you 
plan to sell an original manual on epay.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ