> Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view),
> litigation in Australia is not as easy as it is in the states.
>
> I did check however, and "updating" your own safety manuals with the
> same or similar information as someone else is considered "the norm",
> and would be a very hard case to make, plus I was told that it's very
> doubtful if a safety manual could be copyrighted at all.
Oh, that's odd. There is a big difference between "same" and "similar". If
someone takes your sentiments and expresses them another way I could see how
it would be tough to go after them for that, but to copy and paste your
work, verbatim, into their own documents and then claim them as their own is
fairly blatant - at least here it is. Heck Kinkos copies will fuss if you
bring in a copyrighted manual for copying. Granted not much fussing, but it
is the standard line.
Of course I have no idea about safety manuals per se, our issues were with
detailed parametric CAD drawings.
I can certainly understand not wanting to go that route though, it is pretty
ugly business and takes so long its probably not worth it in the end.
-seanA
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