Welcome to the digital age, a battle ArtekManuals fights every day
On one side of the argument is that you have a "derivative copyright". On the other side "derivative" is subject to a matter of degree if one decided to challenge a usurper in court. Once you post something like that on the BAMA or KO4BB you have effectively put it in the public domain.? If YOU did NOT post it on BAMA or KO4BB and you can prove it is your scan that is up there the web site managers are pretty good about taking down? PDF's that are your work product if you dont want them posted. AS for Ebay good luck getting them to do anything about it (take a good look at the value of your time and the emotional cost of challenging the guy)
If confronted most people (90%)? will honor your work and take the item " off the market".? About 10% just laugh at you. HE cant be selling many of the 1S1 I think I might have sold two copies in the last 15 years.? The laugh may be on him by the time he looks at the return on his listings with fees every month for years.
Explain to me in detail how you know for sure it is your work product.? To the casual observer it looks like a standard Tek cover to me.
-DC
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On 4/2/2018 8:54 PM, snapdiode via Groups.Io wrote:
So about 15 years ago I made a 1S1 manual in Word by scanning the original in three passes, to end up with OCR'd text, B/W diagrams, grayscale pictures, and 11x17 color schematic pages.
I made it into a PDF and it ended up on BAMA.as a free download.
Which is fine, but now I see this on eBay
I can see by the thumbnail this is my PDF.
Is it too much to expect some sort of credit for the work of creating that PDF?
Besides I keep finding typos and graphical oddities in the document.
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Dave
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