On 12 January 2013 23:54, David <dburton97128@...> wrote:
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.
I don't know about the USA, but here in the UK, you do get copyright,
without actually writing a copyright notice. However, it is suggested
that it is better to add a notice, but it is not actually required.
This point reminds me of when I was a school. Myself and a fellow
classmate got in trouble for something, and as a punishment the head
told us to copy some lines from a book he picked off the shelf. I
don't recall the number of lines, pages etc but he gave us both a pen,
some paper, and we were supposed to copy it. He then went away, while
we were supposed to do this.
My school friend, (who unfortunately died of a heart attack at just
19), noticed there was a copyright notice in the book. So we deceided
it was illegal to copy the writing from the book, se we just say
there, and waited for the teacher to come back. When he came back, and
asked to see what we had written, so we showed him the blank pages.
When he asked why we had not done it, we said because of the copyright
notice!
At this point he picked an old book off the shelf, which had no
copyright notice. I think we copied some of that, though we had a bit
of fun out of it all.
Dave
