Bryan Parkoff wrote:
No contact with Jim Sather for over years by asking a permission
to reproduce Understand the Apple II+ electroncially is illegal. It
can violate his copyright. Please look at the first page. It says
not to produce electronically without his permission.
Bryan,
I'm aware that making this available is against the law, but I'm not
planning to step on anybody's toes. I asked around here if anybody knew
about Jim or about Quality Software, before I started to scan it.
The consensus seemed to be that nobody had any recent news about Jim or
knew how to contact him.
The point of what I'm doing is not to hurt Jim's Sales. The book is
out-of-print for a long time and difficult to get in some areas of the
world. And even if you do manage to get an old copy, Jim will most
likely be none the richer for it, since I doubt that many copies exist
which haven't been sold at least once. The point is making something
available that's unavailable to many people - not making money out of
somebody else's work.
If you have a contact address for Jim (I don't really understand if
that's what you're saying), please by all means tell me about it. I'll
not publish anything before I get your answer.
And of course, I ask the eventual hoster to pull this at once, should
Jim or whoever holds the rights actually resurface and ask for this.
In Germany we have a saying, "where's no plaintiff, there's no judge".
IMHO the law of copyright is there to protect the rights of specific
people, not as an abstract body of law that should regulate people's
behaviour no matter what the effect.
Please reply to the group, not by mail.
Best wishes,