65 Scanned Data Books

who holds the copyright?

martin

My comment form submitted during the congressionally-mandated Public Comment period on DMCA was rejected. It seems they intentionally select out the comments they don't want to hear. My comment was with respect to the (increasingly prevalent) locking of catalog, datasheet and manual files containing the information consumers need to use purchased items, and the WIPO and DMCA laws making it illegal spread that information, even if the originating entity no longer exists, or no longer supports or distributes any information about the product.

I've heard our law was quietly passed in the wee hours of the night.

But it was signed by a Democrat President ;-)

...Jim Thompson

More to the point, have any of the copyright holders objected? They probably won't, simply because you're (slightly) helping them sell their products, and certainly not harming them.

I suspect they'd be happy if you'd take over the whole job of distributing their data sheets so they wouldn't have to do it!

Some companies are no longer in business. The others mostly appreciate us making their old data available. We often get emails from the manufacturers asking if we have data on one of their old parts. I know that's hard to believe but it happens frequently.

They also help us keep our database up to date by sending DVDs of datasheets to us. I could see manufacturers being unhappy about Chipdocs or Partminer. They are asking people to pay for datasheets.

On 9 May 2006 18:25:57 -0700, Winfield Hill wrote in Msg.

Yes. And wait until DRM hits the market. Then you can't even be sure that a datasheet (or any other document) you downloaded onto your "trusted computer" will be accessible in the future.

What we must do now is gather as many datasheets as we can get our hands on as long as we can get at them.

robert

Nah, life's great! (imagine the alternative! ;-) ) It's the politicians (and their appointed minions) that are screwing everything up.

Thanks, Rich

Vendors don't still have literature rooms, do they? 10 or 15 years ago, there were a couple of big distributors with offices right near me (Orange County, CA), and they had rooms full of racks full of data books and you could just walk in and help yourself.

But, like I said, it was 10 or 15 (almost 20, now that I think about it) years ago.

Thanks, Rich

No, we've all seen the way industries keep track of documents. ;-)

Cheers! Rich