Re: Spaghetti Publishers want your FAQ!

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Michael S. Shappe (mss1@cornell.edu)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 08:49:31 -0500

At 23:29 940113 -0500, Timothy F. Sipples wrote:
>I sympathize with Kent's sentiments about how FAQ Lists posted to the Usenet
>should be effectively "public domain." None of us (so far as I know :-))
>are getting rich working on these enormously helpful documents.
>
>Nonetheless, I would still draw the line at "value added" versions of said
>lists.

This is an important point. I have just added copyright information to my
FAQ for B5-REVIEW-L and will be for
rec.arts.startrek.reviews/TREK-REVIEW-L; in addition, the FAQs themselves
make it clear that articles posted on those groups are copyright their
authors. NOT because I expect either myself or any of my contributors to
one day try to make money off of their work, but because I want to prevent
anyone ELSE making money off of THEIR work (and my own). Look at the word
closely: 'copyright'; the right to copy, and, by extension, the right to be
the sole person to profit from copying...

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Michael Scott Shappe
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