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Old 12th Oct 2018, 5:24 pm   #38
David G4EBT
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Default Re: Unfair use of service manuals

The term ‘Typographical Arrangement’ is ambiguous - it refers only to the style, layout, composition and general appearance of a published work. Hence, if, say, a service manual is scanned and put into the public domain (be it free of charge or for financial gain) without the copyright owners permission and agreement during the period in which Copyright still exits, then it’s breach of copyright.

Duration of Copyright:

Printed works:

The term of author's copyright under the Copyright Act 1842 (which protected only printed works) was 42 years from the publication of the work, or the lifetime of the author and 7 years thereafter, whichever was the longer. In the 1911 Act the term of author's copyright was extended to the lifetime of the author and 50 years thereafter; this remained the case under the 1956 Act and the 1988 Act.

Under the 1995 Regulations, the period of author's copyright was further extended, to the lifetime of the author and 70 years thereafter. Those regulations were retrospective: they extended the copyright period for all works which were then still in copyright, and (controversially) revived the lapsed copyright of all authors who had died in the previous 70 years, i.e. since 1925.

Accordingly, copyright in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works currently expires 70 years from the end of the calendar year of the author's death. Where the work has more than one author, the copyright expires 70 years after the death of the last survivor of them.

The publisher's (separate) copyright, in the typographical arrangement of a printed work, lasts for 25 years from the end of the year in which publication occurred. This protects a publisher's copyright in all printed works: including books, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals.

International copyright:

This has a bearing on the placement of UK magazines on the American History website:

Notwithstanding that a work qualifies for copyright protection in the UK, it will not be automatically entitled to the normal period of copyright (as set out above). It may be entitled to only a shorter period of protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyri...United_Kingdom

The UK Copyright Act extends to more than 240 pages:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga...9880048_en.pdf

Nothing will change - whether or not some service data is still copyright, internet is awash with copyright material of all types. As to stuff that's of interest to us, people will widely circulate it on internet and on websites either altruistically like AmericanHistory, or for financial gain. The original copyright owners have little interest in it, nothing to gain from restricting circulation and are not making a financial loss. If people object to anyone scanning material and selling it either as a download or on a DVD, the answer is simple - go without and don't buy it or try to get it elsewhere for free.
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