that's exactly my point! it's a practically useless owners manual. what's the big deal about letting us print it!
"Practically useless" yet you've gone to the bother of taking pictures of screens? :blink:
It must be a conspiracy then. Yamaha fortold the future thinking, "Let's screw with this temp357 guy in 2006 by setting our pdf to block printing. A completely useless manual yet we can choose in Adobe Writer which things to allow and disallow. I'll bet he even vents on a forum for which nobody else has a clue."
Or maybe the reason is much more simple.
They charge $30 for a printed owners manual
here
Congratulations. You committed copyright infringement and have stolen yourself a useless manual.
Yamaha will see this and then yank the electronic copy for the rest of us that were using them according to the terms they set forth.
How's that new company working out?
Fair use under United States law
The legal concept of "copyright" was first ratified by the United Kingdom's Statute of Anne of 1709. As room was not made for the unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted content within this newly formulated statutory right, the courts gradually created a doctrine of "fair abridgement", which later became "fair use", that recognized the utility of such actions. The doctrine only existed in the U.S. as common law until it was incorporated into the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107, excerpted here:
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—
1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.[1]
Let's see,
nonprofit educational purposes - Check
already provide a free copy by yamaha - Check
amount and substaintiality of the portion used - not copying the whole book just a few pages - Check
the effect of the use on the potential market - we already established that the manual is practically worthless - Check
:assassin:
P.S. is wikipedia going to come after me for quoting their stuff?
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