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Old 11th Oct 2018, 1:14 pm   #19
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Default Re: Unfair use of service manuals

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Originally Posted by David G4EBT View Post
I guess that if the firm have, say, copied and supplied an AVO manual, whoever has bought it might think "it's not the supplier's property - it's AVOs, so I've as much right as he has to copy it and circulate it for nothing".
There are various sorts of copyright. AVO has the copyright to the original manual. However the person who made the copy of it has an additional copyright to that specific copy. You can make your own copy of the manual identical to the other copy without infringing the copier's copyright. However you can't just take the other copy and distribute it.
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