Re: Spaghetti Publishers want your FAQ!

Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca)
Thu, 13 Jan 1994 20:43:08 -0500

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>I believe Usenet convention dictates that any FAQ List posted to the Internet
>is automatically surrendered into the public domain. I don't think you can
>assert property rights over that.

Not at all. I have asserted my rights to the alt.drugs.caffeine faq
from day one. And _nobody_ should think of it as being in the public
domain.

It is clearly copyrighted, and it indicates so.

>However, in the case of the OS/2 FAQ List, there are actually two formats:
>plain text and so-called INF format (hypertext viewable on OS/2). The INF
>format is, naturally, much more attractive and much nicer to use. I do
>assert some control over this version. I ask that anyone proposing to use
>the List for commercial purposes please contact me for permission.

Morally speaking, you have copyright claims to your faq because of all
the time you have spent compiling and cleaning the information.

Alex

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