[Coco] The dire condition of software documentation..

[Alex Evans]

The question of who holds the copyright can be vague or at least very
difficult to figure out.

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:28 AM Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/19 9:13 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > You will want to look at
> > http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/
> > and
> > http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Operating%20Systems/
> >
> > for the original OS-9 disks and manuals.
> >
> > There are a large number of disks where copyright issues are vague
> > mainly because the holders are out of business and there is no entity
> > left to argue over the copyrights. Archive maintainers do remove
> > software on request of the authors.
> >
>
> Copyright issues are never vague.  The holder being out of business
> has no effect on the Copyright, legally.  The item is still Copyrighted.
>
> bill
>
>
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