[Heathkit] Heathkit Manual Copyright

[Carl]

If Peterson decided to get nasty then moving the files to a Chinese server 
ends that problem.

Carl
KM1H

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From: "Bry Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Heathkit Manual Copyright


Great comments, Miles. Thank you. It makes me wonder what happens when the 
train
has already left the station, as in this situation.
How enforceable is this if someone is not selling the shcmatics for profit 
but gives away
thousands and thousands of copies as .GIF files atht are on trhousands of 
thousands of
computers. DCMA probably helps this copyright holder, but he must have a 
very thick skin
after all the things people wrote about him on various groups a couple of 
years ago when this
started...

You can still download most Heathkit manuals on the web from various 
countries, and a lot of
guys still send them to each other under cover of darkness where prying eyes 
can't watch.
Is it illegal to talk about e-mailing them to someone? OR is it the act of 
reading the manual
that could get someone in trouble with the law?

Is it the possession of these GIF files that is illegal? The transmission of 
them? The sharing
of  them? The selling - I can see that last one for sure as a prosecutable 
offense, but wonder
about the others, especially since so many communities can't even afford to 
put real
criminals in jail for the full time of their sentences.

It sounds like your last statement about patent could be a powerful one.

>  however, invite a better copyright lawyer than I to investigate
> the
> question of how far the air use doctrine may apply to the case
> of
> republishing schematic diagrams and " by way of example "
> alignment
> procedures.
>
> There may also be a question of whether Heathkit was attempting to
> use
> copyright law to protect something that can only be protected by a
> patent.


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