Re: Spaghetti Publishers want your FAQ!

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John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)
Thu, 13 Jan 1994 16:51:50 +0000

>
> I'd like to include your FAQ in a manual...I didn't see any restrictions on
> doing this in the FAQ, but I wanted to make sure that it was okay with you
> before I proceed. Thanks.
>
> This letter left me shaken, since my FAQ was developed as part of a
> forthcoming book...
>
> I realize that I probably left myself open to exploitation like this
> by not putting an explicit notice on my FAQ, and am going to remedy
> this immediately.
>
> This FAQ is Copyright (C) 1994 by Bernard Aboba, and is made
> available as a service to the Internet community. It may not
> be sold in any medium, including electronic, CD-ROM, or database,
> or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of

I share your concern, but I have hesitated to copyright my FAQ because I
didn't know how to handle the fact that the FAQ was constantly changing. My
preliminary asking around indicates that if you/I copyright the current
versions it will also protect future versions because the future versions
would always contain significant verbatim pieces of the copyrighted version.

I think I am going to follow your lead, copyright mine and include a similar
notice. I will probably go further and copyright all further versions that
contain significant modifications.

Does anyone have some experience in this area? I've never copyrighted
anything except traditional written material. I presume that what we
actually copyright is a printed version on the FAQ.

John Moulder (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu) Voice: 414-266-4670
Radiation Biology Group FAX: 414-257-5033
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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