Owner's manuals can be bought together with instruments, so they can
be considered free, but copyright is still at the side of the
manufacturer, if I'm not wrong. Lot of firms usually publish their old
an new manuals so anybody can download them.
Service manuals are different story, they are not for public, as it's
not expected any customer will do repairs. So some firms send or sell
such material only to their authorized service, others sell them on
the request to anybody, and only some are free. But with some effort
lot of this can be found on internet :-) And there are also people who
copied them and resell, probably illegally - like certain Mr. Glinsky...
Then there's some other material on the net which its authors allow to
copy freely. Still it doesn't mean they would loose their copyright,
so it's not possible to quote from it or use parts in other articles
or books without the author's permission. And of course it's against
any ethics to resell such material, as we can sometimes see...
Those books in the links we posted are not Owner's manual, so it's not
allowed to keep such material in Files section. If there's such
suspected material, group can be closed.
And usually it has no reason to have there Owner's manuals as they can
be found elsewhere easily.
Daniel Forro
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On 22 Feb, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Geylo Follen wrote:
> Even operation manuals?
>