FW: Requoting other companies' docs in your own docs

Subject: FW: Requoting other companies' docs in your own docs
From: Bevan Mccabe <BMccabe -at- ALTIO -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:15:50 -0000

> Hi,
>
> please don't bother answering the question I posed earlier under this
> subject line. I decided to go with option 3.
>
> However, I am still interested in the legal implications of using other
> companies' docs in your own, so if anyone has anything to say about that,
> feel free to go ahead.
>
> .... (abridged)
>
> Copy the instructions directly from the other companies manuals - just the
> relevant parts and nothing else.
> Problems: I don't know whether I can legally do this. Do I need to ask
> those companies' permission, or just put a note in that these have been
> copied? I am writing in the UK, but copying from US manuals intended for
> a US audience. My product is intended for a US audience.
>
> ...
>
> Thanks,
> Bevan McCabe
> Technical Author
> Altio Limited
> mailto:bmccabe -at- altio -dot- com
> www.altio.com
>

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