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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

The only SLC checklist that existed in the 1980s was the Bert Sugar's publication (1978?). After collecting these cabinets and recording many that I encountered it became obvious that his checklist needed to be updated. I decided to create a complete checklist. When this list was completed in the 1990s I found that there were almost twice as many player/manager cabinets issued than were originally listed in Bert's publication.

My understanding was that once an article or document is published it becomes copyrighted.

Yes Barry.

In the early 1980s Jim Beckett sued Mark Lewis (CPU) for copyright infringements on his checklists and card-pricing guide. Herman Kaufman was Jim Beckett’s attorney. After some time Jim won the case and Herman did a search for Mark's assets. In the end Mark folded his publication and reportedly no assets were found. I don’t know any more of the details.

Bobby – Your response explaining how long you spend on collecting and processing data has nothing to do with the subject of how you obtained the data.