Rider, Sams now online at the Early Televison Museum site

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Originally Posted by Steve McVoy

I got a message from the COO of Sams. I will be talking to him next week to see if they did, in fact, renew the copyright on the pre-1964 folders. If they can provide me with evidence that they did, I'll be removing the Sams scans from my site.

I myself contacted the COO, Richard White, about this very issue in the past. Here is the answer that I posted to another forum in 2005:



Newsgroups: rec.antiques.radio+phono
From: "jim menning" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:10:08 GMT
Local: Tues, Apr 26 2005 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: DeoxIT brand cleaner by CAIG Laboratories


For those wondering about copying or selling Sams items, I had reason
to contact Richard A. White, the Chief Operating Officer of Sams last
year in regards to copyright questions.

My question: "Are all old Sam's publications still protected
by your copyrights, or are some available for distribution
(public domain)?"


The answer: "My official stance is that I'd prefer others
don't sell copies of my manuals, but the reality is that
over the years, Sams (Howard W. Sams & Co.) didn't renew
some of the copyrights. Thus any manual from Sams
produced prior to 1961 is considered public domain."