Re: FAQ copyrights

John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 15:38:20 -0600

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> To the best of my knowledge one does not have to resort to "legal
> action" until the very very bitter end. Usually an "official notice" of
> a "cease and desist" is sufficient to show that the copyright holder
> is enforcing their rights...

Somewhat off topic. But is there any possibility of using copyright law to
deal with the problems at the OSU archive?

[For those not aware of the problem, the OSU archive contains out-dated copies
of many FAQs, often out-dated copies with out-dated archive names and no
longer valid pointers to the current source. The "webmaster" at OSU does not
respond to requests to remove these items].

The outdated copies of my FAQs at OSU carry a copyright notice. Perhaps
instead of polite e-mail requests to update the archive, the approach should
be "you have archived a copyrighted article of mine in your archive, you do
not have my permission to do this, remove it".

Questions:
1) does the fact that I allow people to "copy and redistribute this document
electronically" undercut this approach?
2) who should this "cease and desist" go to (President, Dean, head of CIS)?

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