Publishing old manuals and books on the web. Legal?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Apr 25 11:27:00 2003

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Wayne M. Smith wrote:

> > I would just put them up. If/when you get a cease & desist
> > letter, take the offending material off and that's that.
>
> There's also that small matter of $150,000 statutory damages for willful
> infringement per copyrighted work ($30,000 per work for non-willful)
> under the copyright statute.

Oops. Who snuck those laws on the books? ;)

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