On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
> 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.
I suspect that the distinction is whether the material was developed at
government expense rather than who printed it. After all, it is the
content that is copyrighted, not the manual itself.
- don
> Regards, Chris
> -- --
> Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
> Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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>
Received on Thu Nov 18 1999 - 23:25:48 GMT