{"id":8201,"date":"2012-11-11T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2012-11-11T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T08:23:10","slug":"toshiba-laptop-service-manuals-and-the-sorry-state-of-copyright-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba laptop service manuals and the sorry state of copyright law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As you would be no doubt already aware, I run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tim.id.au\/blog\/tims-laptop-service-manuals\/\">section of my blog<\/a> here devoted to the free sharing of laptop service manuals. This is a side project I have run for the last three years, gathering as many repair manuals as I could find on the internet and rehosting them on my website for anybody to download and use.<\/p>\n<p>I have unhappy news for you all. Since I was first contacted by Toshiba Australia\u2019s legal department, I have been attempting to discuss with them the potential for me to continue to share their laptop service manuals on my site. Their flat and final response was \u201cYou do not have permission [to disseminate Toshiba copyright material] nor will it be granted to you in the foreseeable future.\u201d As a result, all Toshiba material that was on my website is now gone, permanently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tim.id.au\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/toshiba-laptop-service-manuals-and-the-sorry-state-of-copyright-law\/\">Future proof \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Toshiba laptop service manuals and the sorry state of copyright law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you would be no doubt already aware, I run a section of my blog here devoted to the free sharing of laptop service manuals. This is a side project I have run for the last three years, gathering as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[439,798,971],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright","tag-takedowns","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}