Quote Originally Posted by Edward Horton View Post
I received more hate email from people about losing money on the Enfield manuals they were “selling”.
If its the original manual you copied no one can threaten a copyright over it. But if its a re-edited version then the person who edited the book does have a copy right on the "new" work.

Its the same way publishers can claim a copyright over a Shakespeare play, they re-edited the play into their "new" book, so you have a new item that can be copyrighted.

I could copy word for word the contents since it in itself is not copyrighted (such as by writing it all on the computer), but to copy it page by page (by formatting the copy to match, or to scan/photocopy) is not permissible due to reproducing the original re-edited version that has a new and current copyright.

Dimitri