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Is it legal to host user-manual documents (e.g. a user manual for an lcd television in pdf format) on my server? Also, if I made an HTML page that contains a list of all those hosted documents (again on my server) along with advertisements, would that be described as "redistribution" and if so, would that be legal?

Or maybe this question is too generic and should each document's legality would need to be considered in its own context?

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    Do any of these documents contain a copyright notice? If yes, what does it say? Apr 30, 2013 at 19:58
  • Generally they are copyrighted. Apr 30, 2013 at 20:48
  • Yes, most (if not all) of them contain a copyright notice like "(c) 2009 X Inc. - All rights reserved.". May 1, 2013 at 8:36
  • So they've reserved all rights and you can't do it. May 1, 2013 at 10:06
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    Sorry, the only answer is "check with the people that made the manuals". May 1, 2013 at 10:42

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