[sdiy] - Service Manual Project -

[Rainer Buchty]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Mo Rosati wrote:

> Rainer: " copyright expires after 50-70 years " is this in references to
> the USA specifically ?

For the US see
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

In Germany (and possibly Europe as a whole as the EU legislation is in 
the hands of media companies anyway) they are currently considering a 
similar move, see	
	http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,482993,00.html
	(Non-German readers need to try Babelfish on that one.)

> I wonder if sites that openly SELL vintage service manuals have legal
> clearance?
> eg:
> http://www.markglinsky.com/ManualManor.html
> http://www.musicparts.com/companies.asp

I doubt it. Musicparts already was approached by Roland to remove all 
Boss/Roland stuff; and Mark is e.g. selling the K3m service manual -- 
which I only got by signing an NDA directly with Kawai (and that was 
in 2003...).

Rainer