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Jason Scott is doing an incredible public service here. Presuming this gets scanned and released to the public, it will over time result in many pieces of recyc
by ak217 11y ago
Jason Scott is doing an incredible public service here. Presuming this gets scanned and released to the public, it will over time result in many pieces of recycled electronics, inspired engineers, and derivative art.
- leni536 11y ago> Presuming this gets scanned and released to the public What is the copyright status of these manuals? I hope they don't bump into any legal problem though and they can release scans.
- userbinator 11y agoSome of the oldest ones are probably in the public domain, but I guess the others are still copyrighted; nevertheless, I trust the Internet Archive will have that figured out as they have collected plenty of other copyrighted material before this.
- SolarNet 11y agoArchives have some pretty broad exceptions to copyright infringement laws. [0] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108
- 300bps 11y agoThe Internet Archive hosts all of the MAME ROMs, many of which are still copyrighted: https://archive.org/details/MAME_0_161_ROMs https://archive.org/details/MAME_0_161_ROMs