2600 Manual (Re: [sdiy] DIY and Serge scans from Synapse, 197x)

[Jeffrey D. McEachin]

At 08:40 AM 4/12/02 -0500, Grant Richter wrote:

>The reason I ask is that I would like to republish some copies of the ARP
>2600 owners manual. I think the copyright issues would apply to companies as
>well as magazines?
>
>If anyone knows the author of the 2600 manual, could you please put me in
>touch?

I seriously doubt the author owns the copyright.  It is almost certainly a
"work for hire", and so the rights belong to the owner of ARP's assets.	 As
it says in "The Rise and Fall of ARP Instruments", by Craig R. Waters,
found at Chris Ryan's excellent Chroma site (
http://www.redrooffs.com/chroma/KeyboardMagARP.html ):

>[First National Bank of Boston] took ARP to court.  After listening to
First National and the company's other creditors, the judge appointed a
trustee to oversee ARP's liquidation. On May 13, 1981, the trustee took
over and on September 11 presided over the sale of all the company's
tangible and intangible assets. ...

>[Philip Dodds] re-contacted CBS and struck a deal with them to sell only
the engineering department and the Chroma.


So, it's hard to say who owns the intellectual properties not related to
the Chroma.  The person most likely to know off the top of his head is Phil
Dodds.  His email addy is pdodds at rhassociates.com .  See
http://www.rhassociates.com/background.htm for a nice bio page for Phil.

JDM