[sdiy] DIY and Serge scans from Synapse, 197x

[Fahl, Romeo]

What happens if you retype the words in pig-latin?

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%From: Happy Harry [mailto:paia2720 at hotmail.com]
%Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:43 AM
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%Subject: Re: [sdiy] DIY and Serge scans from Synapse, 197x
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%Watch out... for the artwork redrawing it in your own
%form will NOT violate the copyright...
%
%but re-typing the words (even in a different font) WILL
%violate the copyright.
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%For the pictures, the copyright lies in the visual expression...
%but for text the copyright lies in the assembly of the words.
%
%If you "re-wrote" the text (paraphrased) you would be OK... or
%if you quoted short segments into what is otherwise a scholarly
%work (such as a critique of the ARP 2600 manual)... you would
%be OK.
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%I'd be inclined to just publish the work, and then cease and desist
%if anyone from the long-gone company complains....  The copyright
%establishes their right to collect damages... but it would be damn
%hard to prove that you damaged sales of the ARP2600 or the 
%out-of-print 
%manual at this point. You might argue that you have actually 
%enhanced their 
%ability to make money by keeping the memory
%alive...  ;^)
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%H^) harry (I'm not a lawyer but I play one on TV....)
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%>From: Neil Johnson <nej22 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
%>To: DJ Marmalade <djmarmalade at planetp.org>
%>CC: synth-diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
%>Subject: Re: [sdiy] DIY and Serge scans from Synapse, 197x
%>Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:14:56 +0100 (BST)
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%> > > In the case of a paid magazine article, copyright is 
%transferred to 
%>the
%> > > magazine for publication? If the magazine then closes, does the 
%>copyright
%> > > automatically transfer back to the author?
%>
%>In my experience with hobby electronics magazines the 
%magazine retains the
%>copyright of the printed page, ie. the layout, the artwork, 
%the formatting
%>etc.  So if I wanted to sell copies of the magazine articles, 
%or put scans
%>of them on the web I would need their permission.
%>
%>HOWEVER, if I redrew the diagrams, rephrased the text, reformatted the
%>text in a different form, then I would NOT be infringing 
%their copyright,
%>because it would not be a COPY of what they had published.  As I
%>understanf it, copyright protects the PRESENTATION, not the content
%>(unlike patents).  Otherwise the first opamp inverter circuit 
%published
%>would claim "copyright" on all subsequent published opamp inverter
%>circuits, which clearly is not the case :-)
%>
%>Ok, this doesn't help if you just want to scan in some docs 
%and put them
%>up on a website.  That would most definitely be a copyright violation,
%>since you would be copying the material (remember: presentation, not
%>content)  without the owner's permission.
%>
%>If you retyped the words, or redrew the schematic that would 
%be a way to
%>circumvent the copyright issue.  Tedious, but legally sound.
%>
%>Neil
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