Is it "OK" to post machine board blue prints that are 40yr old?

[J.Caraher]

I have a bunch of manuals, maintenance, operator etc manuals from my FANUC 6m that I am converting to digital. Is it against forum rules to share them public?

 

[ChipSplitter]

I'm relatively new here, but since forty years is considered antique in many cases my vote would be to post it.

 

[TeachMePlease]

General forum etiquette that I've seen is to not publicly share anything that may be copyrighted or that a manufacturer could still make money by selling (optional parameter settings, etc)... The exceptions I've seen have been for now defunct companies.

 

[J.Caraher]

General forum etiquette that I've seen is to not publicly share anything that may be copyrighted or that a manufacturer could still make money by selling (optional parameter settings, etc)... The exceptions I've seen have been for now defunct companies.

These manuals are getting sold on Ebay as a reproduction. You would imagine that a copyright infringement would have surfaced by now. Also some of them are internal blue prints from the factory from systems that haven't been produced since the 80's.

....and I was typing this, found they've already been uploaded....

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Icarus/DOCUMENTS/Fanuc_Manuals_1790.pdf

 

[ChipSplitter]

I think the reason for the restrictions are to prevent people from posting option codes to unlock paid features on a control.

cnc forum posting guidelines

Let's just not turn this into a hacking forum.

 

[Vancbiker]

One of the stickys at the top of the forum specifically says to not post option parameters or codes.

Nothing said about copyright materials. Posting a link to an old manual is, IMHO, OK.

 

[Ox]

You would be expecting to post them in this other board - right?

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/machinery-manuals-and-brochures/


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