Digital Millennium Copyright Act - what does it mean for us?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu May 11 16:03:57 2000

At 01:51 PM 5/11/00 -0400, Cini, Richard wrote:
>For example, although I acknowledge the copyrights of the various
>owners of the printed materials on my Web site (the AIM documents, for
>example, since Rockwell is still around), I do not have explicit permission
>from Rockwell to make those materials available. I'm sure that many of us in
>our preservation efforts have a mixture of documents from defunct companies
>and from live ones (but for which the products have been long discontinued).

I really like the fact that people are archiving old documents
in this fashion and placing them on the web. I'm very hard-core about
intellectual property rights, but on the other hand, it's near impossible
to find the original owners in most cases of antique computers.

By republishing without permission, what you're risking is the chance
that the proper owner could someday discover what you've done, and
decide that it's worth suing you to recover the damage you've caused.

- John
Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 16:03:57 BST