Selling Manual Reprints?

[Sdashiki]

Maybe you were misled by the thread title, what I mean to say is selling, for a profit, reprinted (photocopied) instruction manuals for cameras.

Can you really just photocopy a manual, trim, staple and sell it for a tidy profit?

this guy on ebay does this almost exclusively.

I mean, why not buy one, and just do what he does with copies of his copy? And like undercut his prices by a dollar.

 

[Lovesong]

I do believe this stuff is copyrighted. People will sell anything on e-bay though.

 

[compuwar]

Maybe you were misled by the thread title, what I mean to say is selling, for a profit, reprinted (photocopied) instruction manuals for cameras.

Can you really just photocopy a manual, trim, staple and sell it for a tidy profit?

this guy on ebay does this almost exclusively.

I mean, why not buy one, and just do what he does with copies of his copy? And like undercut his prices by a dollar.

Legally, the manual is copyright the author or their company, so reprinting is a copyright violation. Most product companies don't care to enforce their copyrights, but technically without the copyright owner's permission, it's a violation.

IANAL.