Respecting Copyright
Respecting Copyright
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Hypothetical question - of course.
Imagine that you are reviewing a vendor's data package for some piece of equipment.
Included in said data package are copies of one or more pieces of literature that bear a copyright notice - not of the vendor. They may be things such as manuals for sub-components, articles from trade journals, standards from ASME, ASTM, IEC etc.
What do you do?
Imagine that you are reviewing a vendor's data package for some piece of equipment.
Included in said data package are copies of one or more pieces of literature that bear a copyright notice - not of the vendor. They may be things such as manuals for sub-components, articles from trade journals, standards from ASME, ASTM, IEC etc.
What do you do?





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What I do if it happened to me is include a note about the copyright infringement in my review report. That, or ignore it.
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This makes the point without implying or assuming that infringement has occurred.
debodine
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I reviewed a set of plans once (Ohio) that had a disclaimer near the seal that if the seal was not blue, it was not a valid copy. (they were signed and dated but it was obviously a copy). I called the design professional (architect, I think) to tell him what I had and verbally told me it was okay.
If he had said it was not okay (probably a payment issue), I would have asked the design professional to confirm, in writing, that no permisson to use the drawings was granted and that he was withdrawing his seal from the plans submitted. In the correction letter I would remind the owner that he had to tell me who is the gn professional of record and to submit drawings bearing the seal of that designer. I had no duty to the designer but only the duty to review drawings in compliance with the law.
The moral answer is similar - unless you know they are violating copyright laws, I doubt it is worth the effort to even ask. The copyright holder has to figure out a way to protect their own copyright.
Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
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Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
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Do you actually obtain permission, or just add the notation?
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Yes, we actually obtain the permission.
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Copyright only works if everybody helps, both morally and diligently. We should be raising the bar not lowering it for convenience.
Robert Mote
www.motagg.com
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Conceptually, yes.
If you are seeking permission for something published in an actual book, journal or similar, then the publisher has an actual department or person in charge of IP.
However, for manuals or similar you often wind-up with a discussion with the manufacturer's receptionist along the lines of: "I'd like to speak with the person in charge of your intellectual property." "What?".
I've also simply had multiple requests - e-mail and voice mail - simply never responded to.