Electronic Version of the Assembly Manual?

[Fishman]

I recently purchased a 'hard copy' assembly manual a few months ago (about 500 double-sided pages). Does any one know where I could purchase an electronic version? The quality of the hard copies I bought is not that great and I would love to have it on my laptop.

 

[dmrodco]

would like to have one of those myself for my car !!!

 

[Fishman]

Any lawyers out there?

I have scanned all 564 pages of the 1978 assembly manual in Adobe pdf format. I wonder what the legality is for me sharing the scans (individual pages and/or the whole document)? The GM blue prints do not have a copyright symbol. Does this mean I can send a page or entire disk to anyone that asks?

 

[Tom Bryant]

I don't think you will ever have a problem doing that. I've scanned articles ect. and sent them to someone that needed them. It's when you start publishing this stuff or posting it online that the copyright problems arrise.

Tom

 

[corvettecrazy]

Re: Any lawyers out there?

I have scanned all 564 pages of the 1978 assembly manual in Adobe pdf format. I wonder what the legality is for me sharing the scans (individual pages and/or the whole document)? The GM blue prints do not have a copyright symbol. Does this mean I can send a page or entire disk to anyone that asks?

how long did it take you to scan 564 pages??? seems like a LOT of stuff to scan!

 

[JrdnsEdu]

I'm not an attorney, but do deal with legality issues in my line of business. I'd be careful what you do and do not publish and to whom.

It must be remembered that copyright has two main purposes, namely the protection of the author's right to obtain commercial benefit from valuable work, and more recently the protection of the author's general right to control how a work is used.

The "fair use" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. Intent and damage to the commercial value of the work are important considerations. Are you reproducing the assembly manual because you needed to in order to criticize the quality of the schematics, or because you couldn't find time to draw your own version, or didn't want folks to have to purchase the assembly manual? The first is probably fair use, the others probably aren't.

Like I said, I'm not an attorney nor do I play one on TV.
And if I needed pgs 10-20 of the assembly manual which I do not own, and you were graciously willing to post on the forum or email to me, I certainly would thank you and leave it at that.

 

[XS650]

Try asking GM for permission to make it available at your cost. I know of people that did that with old Yamaha parts manuals and the Mothership gave them permission. As long as GM or one of their partners like Helms isn't trying to sell the same product, you stand some chance of getting permission.