Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals

[hishamk]

Sorry to bust the party, but am wondering about the legality of these scans at http://www.diystash.com/downloads/other/amiga and http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/willkommen.html. Are they sufficiently old to have lost their copyright status in the US and Europe?

Just wondering - I know a lot of these titles are hard to come by nowadays on sites like eBay or Alibris - so preservation of the knowledge in them is a priority.

[hishamk]

Since they seem to be the (un)official archivists of Amiga, perhaps Cloanto, the guys behind Amiga Forever, can contact publishers and get their permission to include scanned copies of books with Amiga Forever.