[sdiy] - Service Manual Project -

[Peter Blackett]

Hi,
I agree that the biggest concern is the legality aspect. ......
my second concern is that the information gets copied and then SOLD on 
ebay as Cd's .
this has happened regularly I think with some of the information ( about 
Hammond Organs and Leslie speakers )
at http://www.captain-foldback.com/


regards Peter





Rainer Buchty wrote:

>On Mon, 21 May 2007, Mo Rosati wrote:
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>>Your right, the biggest concern is BANDWIDTH ( specifically the cost 
>>of bandwidth ).
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>Nah, the biggest concern is *legal*.
>
>You need to make sure for every file that the company or its current 
>rightholder doesn't mind. There are companies which are basically out of 
>synth business, but still require you to sign an NDA(!) for getting the 
>service manual of their early 1980s gear -- thinking of Kawai here, for 
>instance.
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>Other companies made arrangements with local "industrial copyists" such 
>as Schaltungsdienst Lange in Germany which e.g. sells all the Yamaha 
>manuals, or still sell all the old stuff by themselves (Roland).
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>With companies out of their former business (like Ensoniq, Emu) it still 
>can be a limbo. It would be a shame if either your provider just deletes 
>everything because some lawyer had a bad morning, or if you get into 
>trouble for the very same reason. Not sure whether you want to go the 
>way to acquire (a) an anonymous domain and (b) host everything on some 
>far-out island which doesn't give a damn about IP concerns.
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>Just remember how Roland went after the MT32 emulator project because it 
>was using their "copyrighted" set of waveform samples... So just because 
>something is old, doesn't necessarily mean that the companies don't care 
>anymore.
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>To Julian: copyright expires after 50-70 years, which is e.g. why the US 
>faced the "Lex Disney" to prevent Mickey Mouse falling into public 
>domain and why several older musicians start to complain as their late 
>50s recordings also leave copyright protection.
>
>Rainer
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