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Jon,
I presume someone could buy the K-350 plans on CD from PSUBS and have the
full- size plans printed from that for their own use. Correct? It's
not a cheap solution, but it is a solution.
Jim
In a message dated 5/5/2012 5:16:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
jonw@psubs.org writes:
Well, no, that's a misinterpretation of fair use in my
opinion. There's
no encumbrance on a copyright owner to make their
works available to
anyone. Fair use is a concept, not a distinct set
of rules, and
therefore open to interpretation by a court. In
general, fair use is
accepted as meaning utilization a minor segment of a
larger piece of
work. However it's up to a court to ultimately
decide how much use of a
protected work is "too much" and violates
reasonable "fair use".
Busby's Manned Submersibles is in the public
domain, but using that as
an example if it weren't, you could likely quote
a paragraph of
technical information from it under fair use because in a
700+ page book
the use of one paragraph does not significantly compromise
the totality
of the work (the book).
US copyright laws do a good
job of protecting the owners of works. A
couple of years ago I
brought action against a well known 60's music
artist who had been using a
photo of mine as the cover of an album
without my permission since
1992. In 1985 I had sent the photo to the
artist and asked them to
autograph and return it to me. Shortly
thereafter, I received a call
from the artist's representative asking if
they could use it for marketing
purposes and I replied not unless they
paid me for the photo. I
never heard back from them, never received
compensation for the photo, and
never received the photo back.
Twenty-five years later, I happened
to check the artists web site and
found that they had used my photo as an
album cover since 1992. I hired
a copyright lawyer and was
successful in forcing them to stop using the
photo and having them remove
the image from all existing albums they had
in stock.
US law is
pretty clear. If it's not yours, you can't use it without
permission.
Jon
On 5/5/2012 12:44 PM, Marc de Piolenc
wrote:
> Interesting. My friend firmly believed he was buying from The
Source,
> and he's not stupid. Wonder where he actually bought
it.
>
> If the copyright owner doesn't make the plans available,
then the
> field is pretty much open under Fair Use. It would be nice,
though, if
> whoever it was provided a complete, clean
set.
>
>
Marc
>
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