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> 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 an
by 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