I've watched this discussion with some interest because while I'll never
make money off my FAQs, I am very interested in how the net is changing
intellectual property law.
Since I did not purchase the rights to any of the material in the
soc.motss FAQ from the original contributors, I can not in good conscience
charge anyone else for the use of that FAQ. There is no way I could
defend reselling someone elses' ideas and words when they were freely
given to me.
Since the QRD FAQ is original with me, that situation does not apply.
However, regardless of what the law might say, I *personally* feel that
anything *I* post to the net enters the public domain instantly. I
realize that many, perhaps most, people don't agree with me.
Using two fairly common usenet analogies, I think it is pointless and
unenforceable to get upset with people who make photocopies of the flier
you stapled to every telephone pole in sight. Once something been dropped
onto the net, there is no way to trace or track that information -- you
might as well drop leaflets from an airplane.
David.
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