[Coco] [Color Computer] Holy Mods Batman!

[Sylvain Rousseau]

Ok, the book I'm scanning is Levinthal's 6809 book.

I know nothing about copyright, I don't know if this book is abandoned.
I have this book and to preserve it I decide to scan it.

If someone is willing to do the work to be sure we can share it, please do it
and keep me informed.  I won't post it on the Web until I got a 
confirmation that I can do it.

Sylvain


At 19:17 2005-04-13, you wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:18 -0400, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
> > Levinthal's 6809 book?  I'd imagine the publisher might object, unless 
> you've
> > obtained permission to post copyrighted material.
> >
>
>Well in general the best thing is to try to get hold of the copyright
>holder (which may or may not be the publisher) and attempt to get the
>book released under a open content license (like Creative Commons).
>
>That's what Leo Brodie permitted me to do with Thinking Forth. It was
>re-typeset, and it's available print-on-demand or as a free PDF
>download, or as LaTeX source. This book will probably never be out of
>print or unavailable again.
>
>But for the unspecified book in question, if it's truly an orphaned work
>(almost certainly not in print anymore), copyright infringement becomes
>a calculated legal risk for each individual engaged in the practice.
>Given the current legal environement, one can either let these orphaned
>works die or we can ensure their preservation until such time as the
>broken copyright system is fixed.
>
>Certainly letting old works die is not in the spirit of the founders who
>gave Congress the power to create the copyright system. So if it is
>truly orphaned it is not really a ethical or moral issue. Just an issue
>of legal risk.
>
>-- John.
>
>
>
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