Thanks for posting this. I had not thought of many of your points.
I did do a quick perusal of my HP manuals and found that many have no copyright claims or rights reserved at all in the original factory manuals. I believe this is a legal requirement if you wish to claim copyright ownership.
On the other hand some manuals do have a copyright notice. There seems no rhyme or reason as to which do and which don't. Probably just the whim of the technical writer at the time.
Since most are out of print or obsolete the US copyright law does allow copying. Some restrictions may apply.
I do see the point on you being able to copyright your value added work. I'm glad you can do that since it helps to keep documentation for this equipment available.
Fortunately for me I have been able to acquire the original documents for almost all of my HP acquired equipment so I haven't really had to stress too much about it.
David B
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--- In hp_agilent_equipment@..., Artekmedia wrote:
David Kirby
While I abhor this type of posting on a technical forum , per YOUR
request I will make this one public response to your request for a
public "hearing"
Here are the finer points in response to your query
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