Hello:
If you notice copies of our manuals for sale as an ongoing enterprise,
I would like to hear about it. There have been various instances oof
this over the several years I have been here.
Ten-Tec does not authorize anyone to be a distributor of our equipment
manuals as we continue to hold title to them and make available copies
of manuals for virtually anything we have ever built.
There have been instances of Ten-Tec manuals available for sale on
CD-ROM - none of these are authorized by us. We have not made
copies of our manuals available (to date) in an electronic format.
Of course, a copy of a manual that was obtained from us as original
either as a replacement or with a piece of Ten-Tec equipment and
sold as a used, original manual as a casual sale is exempted. We are
only interested in preventing our copyright from being violated.
Thanks
Scott Robbins
Amateur Radio Product Manager
At 10:52 AM 3/17/03 -0800, you wrote:
Just FYI. Last week I saw a guy selling CD's with .pdf copies of Ten Tec
manuals on eBay. I had never seen a Ten Tec manual on CD. I then noticed
at least two other guys selling copies of Ten Tec manuals over the
internet this week. I wondered if these were legitimate copies, I've
recently been delving into copyright law :-) . Scott tells me that Ten
Tec does not authorize anyone to make copies to sell. He also explains
that the only exception is for an individual copy obtained from Ten Tec
originally. (You can make a backup copy of your own Ten Tec manual for
yourself, of course.)
Clark
WA3JPG
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