Copyright clearance (was Re: Classic Hardware Documentation Project)

From: Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_netsync.net>
Date: Thu Nov 18 18:36:04 1999

Upon the date 03:04 PM 11/18/99 -0800, Chris Kennedy said something like:
>Christian Fandt wrote:
>>
>> Upon the date 03:47 PM 11/18/99 -0500, Jason McBrien said something like:
>> >I am starting a documentation project to collect hardware manuals and
>> >technical documents for all different types of old computers.
  -- snip --

>> If you find Government printed computer manuals you should be out of
>> trouble. But what computers that we'd have in our collections would have
>> gov't. issue manuals?
>
>Not even the ones for my Rolm 16xx stuff. Rolm's copyright
>persists into the US Government documents :-(

Must be some docs for a government contract prepared outside of the
contract at Rolm's (or the prime contractor's) expense. Often, anything
printed under a government contract is not copyrighted.

Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
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Received on Thu Nov 18 1999 - 18:36:04 GMT

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