> The flat-sum suggestion sounds too much like
> work-made-for-hire, which very few maintainers would
> accept.
This wouldn't make it a work for hire. To make it a work for hire, either
the contributors would have to be employees of the publisher, or they
would have to agree in writing that it is a work for hire.
I expect, however, that the publisher is going to require an assignment of
the copyright of parts written specifically for the book and will maintain
its own copyright in the compilation as a whole. Neither of these,
however, will interfere with the individual copyrights in the individual
FAQs held by their authors (although some authors might object to
flat-out assignment of their contributions without at least a license
back to reuse their own work).
-- Terry Carroll | "Al Gore is doing for the federal government what Santa Clara, CA | he did for the Macarena. He's removing all the carroll@tjc.com | unnecessary steps." Modell delenda est | - Bill Clinton, September 20, 1996
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