[madeuce50]

As a former moderator on a vintage garden tractor forum I can attest to the fact that John Deere legal came down on us like a ton of bricks for scanning vintage JD garden tractor owners manuals for tractors and accessories and posting them for forum members to download for free. Oh well, corporate policy ain't always good for customer relations.....

[carbking]

Originally Posted by madeuce50

As a former moderator on a vintage garden tractor forum I can attest to the fact that John Deere legal came down on us like a ton of bricks for scanning vintage JD garden tractor owners manuals for tractors and accessories and posting them for forum members to download for free. Oh well, corporate policy ain't always good for customer relations.....

If the company in question has reprints available, I have no issue with buying the reprints. Pretty sure Deere has reprints available for all of their L & G tractors. And they are good quality, I have several.

Its what isn't available that bothers me.

When I tried to reproduce the "Service Craftsman News", and got the response from GM that I couldn't afford, I even offered my collection on loan if they would do the reproductions. There was no interest.

I was really quite surprised at what Pontiac no longer had in their library. I made a number of copies for them of some really RARE stuff, and got some interesting stuff in return.

And least anyone misunderstand, the purpose of this thread was NOT to avoid paying royalties, rather to preserve information, and make it available. At my age, TRYING to downsize, and eliminating my magazine collection would free up a LOT of space.

Jon

[LastoftheThinkers]

Originally Posted by carbking

If the company in question has reprints available, I have no issue with buying the reprints. Pretty sure Deere has reprints available for all of their L & G tractors. And they are good quality, I have several.

Its what isn't available that bothers me.

When I tried to reproduce the "Service Craftsman News", and got the response from GM that I couldn't afford, I even offered my collection on loan if they would do the reproductions. There was no interest.

I was really quite surprised at what Pontiac no longer had in their library. I made a number of copies for them of some really RARE stuff, and got some interesting stuff in return.

And least anyone misunderstand, the purpose of this thread was NOT to avoid paying royalties, rather to preserve information, and make it available. At my age, TRYING to downsize, and eliminating my magazine collection would free up a LOT of space.

Jon

What you could always do is scan them anyway for personal use, and later try to identify the legality of it. I am sure someone out there would look at purchasing your physical copies as well. Nobody can prevent you from scanning them for yourself, just as long as you do not distribute them.