[Icom] Service Manuals on CD

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:31:22 -0800

You have the right to make a copy of your purchased manual, but the 
third-party does not have the right to sell you their bootlegged CD copy, 
regardless of whether or not you have a legitimate copy.  In effect, you 
would be purchasing two copies:  one legitimate from Icom and one pirated 
from the third-party.

The only way the third-party copy would be legitimate would be if you sent 
them your original copy to put on the CD and then they returned both to 
you.  For them to sell additional copies of that or any other CD, however, 
would be a violation of Icom's copyright.

The same goes for Napster.  YOU can *create* a digital copy of your own 
legitimate material, but you cannot give or sell it to anyone else.  Like 
the Icom manuals, owning one legitimate copy does not give you the right to 
obtain other illegitimate copies.

Let's try to keep this discussion oriented towards Icom material....

73, Dick

At 10:03 AM 2/25/2002, Mark wrote:
 >The discussion SHOULD include one fact, too ... that in many cases people
 >have their ICOM manual that they have misplaced .. and have in fact bought
 >it in the first place.   Not the same thing as not ever paying for someone'
 >copyrighted work.  If I own a manual, I will put it on CD for my convenience
 >.. that is legal ... as long as I own the original.   Perhaps I would like
 >someone else to do that work, or, I don't have the facilities ?????
 >I downloaded several thousand songs from NAPSTER ... but they were already
 >purchased by me, I have hundreds of CDs and cassettes ... was in that biz
 >for years .. just wanted them in MP3 form, so no artist was "skunked" by me!
 >ICOM is to be "kissed" for putting operational manuals on the web ... thank
 >you, oh gurus at the Big EyE ..!!
 >73, Y'all ... Mark  AA6DX
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Chris BONDE" <[email protected]>
 >To: <[email protected]>
 >Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:55 PM
 >Subject: Re: [Icom] Service Manuals on CD
 >
 >
 >> I agree with you about pirated copies of respectable firms.
 >> I just hope that the radio industry doesnot go the way of using the
 >> copyright to blackmail the user.  That is the main reason that I can see
 >> that most of the music pirates are supported.
 >> Chris opr VE7HCB
 >>
 >>
 >> At 02:16 PM 2002-02-24 -0500, you wrote:
 >> >Hi, everyone,
 >> > >
 >> > > They are pirated copies of the manuals.  Someone has scanned the
 >> > > copyrighted Icom manuals, put them on a CD and is selling them.  If
 >you
 >> > > normally buy pirated software this won't bother you.  If you would
 >prefer
 >> > > not to buy stolen goods, it will.
 >
 >
 >
 >----
 >Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan W6OLD, [email protected]
 >Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/
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Dick Flanagan W6OLD CFII Minden, Nevada
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