[sdiy] IP, copyright etc

[Harry Bissell Jr]

Actually if he redraws the schematics, they
are essentially his from a copyright point of view.

For the text, he would need to re-word everything
so that someone who was reading it could not recognise
that it was plagerized from the original.

The standards are VERY different for text, and graphic
art. Text 'is' the order of the words used... graphics
are the arrangement of the symbols.

You can't copytight "the" ... or the symbol for
a resistor... just where you put them

H^) harry

--- Fiercefish <fiercefish at btinternet.com> wrote:

> So this makes matters even more confusing, say this
> guy who offered the
> copies on ebay just uses the schematics from the
> authors book, and puts his
> own text and changes the format around does this
> make it acceptable? Because
> in esscence (to me at least) the value of the book
> is the schematics and not
> the text that accompanies them. Surely this can't be
> right?
> 
> 
> FF
> 
> 
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