Originally Posted by harrison987 (Post 48329)

This publishing company is full of shyte. I have already spoken with them, and Sicuro has NO COPYRIGHT on those items. The Canadian Intellectual Property Rights dept., hands out copyright to ANYONE. You do not have to provide proof of anything. You register online, tell them you are the owner, and voilà, you get a copyright certificate in the mail. They do not investigate the claims, and WILL NOT back you up in court.

I know this, because 1) I am Canadian, 2) I have dealt with copyright for maaannnnyyy years, and 3) I own about 80 original manuals, and wanted to obtain the copyrights WAAYYYYY before Sicuro did.

WW2 copyright does not exist anywhere I know of, not because it is WW2, but because of the date. If I owned a aircraft company and printed aircraft manuals in 1940...copyright would be lost if:

1) original author died (company went out of business) and 10 years go by from his death

2) 50 years after original publication, no copyright was re-registered.

3) company lost all records proving they were the original publisher.

However, I can RETAIN the copyright if I re-register, have proof of legal copyright, and are WITHIN the legal tmeframes/dates.

Sicuro is under the impression that IF NO ONE claims copyright after the author's death, then the first person who does becomes the legal copyright holder. That is 100% FALSE. Copyright automatically would have gone to EADS when they took over Messerschmitt AG/Daimler-Benz., and automatically lost when 50 yesrs went by from the publication date.

If they did not register the copyright 50 years after the original publication (75 in Canada, I believe), then even THEY cannot claim anything. Once in FREE DOMAIN, it remains in FREE DOMAIN for life. This is recognized worldwide, even in Germany.

I have a letter from the legal department at EADS, stating they even THEY cannot prove they are the legal successor, as the company changed so many times, and there is NO documents showing they are the successor (even though it is pretty obvious). It would never hold up in court. EADS can offer a "non-exclusive" license to print the work (logs/branding, etc.), but Sicuro's copyright claim is BS.

Copyright law, though slightly different in every country, is GENERALLY the same. Once an item is in free domain, it remains in FREE DOMAIN.

To date, the family of William Shakespeare gets NO ROYALTIES from plays published...no copyright. That is why you see his plays published by 100's of different publishers.

Both Sicuro and sudek13 cannot claim copyright on anything, and would lose any court battle, as they would not be able to prove they are the LEGAL SUCCESSOR of the photos or documents

100% fact.

;)

mike

Originally Posted by LuckySicuro (Post 52743)

Dear Sir I am Dr. Sicuro President of Sicuro Publishing I see that misinterpretation and lack of " Basic Law " knowledge .
Few Clear Words : I never was contact by anyone in this Arena .. so please ..
Our Copyright refer not " ONE Public Domain publication ' But indeed " Bundle Public Domain Publication " .. Because Sirs you sound.. well informed .. you cam explain to this community what this copyright law is about .. I strongly advise you or any member to this community to engage legal advise on this matter.....Or contact a Publish company that can explain in details ... this issues I have enjoy to read ... my Best Regards to everyone ... Fortunato Sicuro .... Sicuropublishing.com

Originally Posted by John Vasco (Post 52779)

This guy's taking the piss. I love taking on piss-takers. What else have you got to say, Mr. Sicuro. Please tell me you have copyright over the words: 'Bombsights Over England', or 'Sting of the Luftwaffe'. Maybe you've copyrighted Vasco da Gama's name, and will sue me because of my surname. Man, I'm shitting myself.

John Vasco

Originally Posted by bavgan (Post 52755)

Dr. Sicuro,

As far as I see from the Canadian copyright links, you own the copyrights of several Luftwaffe aircraft manuals (especially the Ersatzteil-Liste BF-109 E, F and G) and the Fw 190 blueprints.

Are you aware that the same manuals are also for sale at eBay in CD/DVD format. And, in addition to that, are you aware that the sellers of these CDs claim the copyrights of these manuals by a system called "VeRo", which is an "ultra-genious" copyright agreement of eBay itself? VeRo has nothing to do by law. Once you tell them that you have the copyrights of a book, they give it to you without questioning it! Ebay loves its users.

Back to the life out of eBay, as you have the copyrights, I strongly advise you to take all legal action and earn your best. Law is with you :)

Regards,

Batur


PS: I visit this forum only a few times a year. However, if you win the court, I would love to know that. An e-mail is welcome.

Originally Posted by John Vasco (Post 52791)

Mr Sicuro,

What you say in reply to me says nothing. It is a load of bollocks.

"...We Claim the Copyright about OUR work.. That Came from The Original Manuals But it is NOT the ORIGINAL Manual.. It is Translate Or It was Modify From the Original Title is the same contents It is Not..." Yes, and some Polish prick did that to a joint work that I did with another researcher/author - lifted parts of our book, translated them into Polish, then back into poor English, and didn't even have the courtesy to contact me about it (I was the Publisher!) Of course it's not the original manual. The original manual was printed during the Third Reich years! Do you think I'm fuckin' stupid! If I (or any other author) quote from an official wartime document, we don't claim those sentences/paragraphs as our own copyright.

By this argument: "We Claim Copyright or what we have done .. Our Work... ... Our Work is a Modify Version of Original Manuals.. ..." I think I'll publish, let's see, 'Flieger, Ritter, Helden', or 'Mölders und seiner Männer', or how about 'Unsere Flieger über Polen'. I'll just write a single paragraph on the first page and claim complete copyright over the whole thing. Am I right? Cos that's what you're doing. But hang on, there are copies of those books still out there (I have a copy of all three of them for starters) and if others were to quote from them, could I then sue them for copyright violation? I don't think so.

I see through you. Why don't you just piss off and stop spamming this Forum.