Ferrari Mailing List: Re: ferrari infringement ebay

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Hi Michel,
Unfortunately, Ferrari ownes the copywrite to these manuals and the earliest
that copywrite will expire is 70yrs from the date of creation.  Thus,
Ferrari has no incentive to support unauthorized distribution of the
manuals.  I doubt a financial arrangement(giving them a cut of sales) would
be meaningful to them.

Perhaps you could play to their business side, suggesting that if you make
the manuals available, owners will be more apt to work on their vehicles and
therefore purchase Ferrari NOS parts - or realize they are in over their
heads and take their Ferrari to a dealer for service(and subsequent parts
purchase).


Good luck,

Mark Lueker
308 SYSTEMS Inc.
970-282-7006
www.308systems.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Savard [mailto:mysavard [at] dsuper.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 4:00 PM
To: Mark
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] ferrari infringement ebay


I’ve been selling  copies of my parts manual (1981 308 GTSi) for many
years on Ebay. A few months ago, Ebay cancelled my auction. I took the
word “copy” out of the title and the description. I sold them again and
it worked for a few months before Ebay cancelled my auction again saying
that Ferrari doesn’t allow this.

Ebay gave me a Ferrari email address in case I wanted to bring my case
to Ferrari. Now before I do that, I need some help as to what I should
write to Ferrari about that. After all, they don’t make new parts manual
for old cars anymore, they don’t sell copies neither. So, why do they
bother ?

Please help me make a strong case to Ferrari.

Michael Savard (Canada)




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