First, by publishing something you wrote, you are not giving up the
copyright to that work. Your FAQ still belongs to you, and the right to
reprint it, particularly for profit, is yours. The person who asked your
permission for inclusion in the CD ROM was absolutely right to do so, and
you can refuse to give permission, if you so choose. Putting a notice on
your FAQ is a good idea -- it lets people who don't necessarily know the
law see that you are specifically retaining your rights to the information.
But you still own your words, even if no notice was originally posted.
So take a deep breath, and tell Vivian that you do not give your permission
to include your FAQ in SRI's CD ROM.
Shari
Shari Steele, Director of Legal Services, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Can we talk in private? Not if our new Secretary of Defense has his way!!!
"Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry
can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through
scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of
research that can be done in those areas."
--Adm. Bobby R. Inman in a February, 1982 article for _Aviation Week and
Space Technology_ on why cryptographic research should be limited to
government scientists. Full text of this article is available for
anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org as pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/inman.article.
If you want to help fight government limitations on your right to privacy,
join the Electronic Frontier Foundation! For more info, write to
ask@eff.org.
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