I am going to transfer the maintainence of the FAQ for 'soc.culture.taiwan'
to someone else. I would need some efforts to teach my successor about
this list, how to submit to 'news.answers', and so on. However, there is
a problem with the copyright statement. Right now in the FAQ documents
I maintain, there is some copyright statement like
"....... 1995, 1996, 1997 copyright by Tung-chiang Yang".
Suppose in October 1997 my successor is going to take over the FAQ
posting work (even before he is approved by 'news.answers' moderation
team, as he posts in 'soc.culture.taiwan' only). What should we do to
modify the above copyright statement?
Both of us understand that he would not sue me, and I would not sue him.
However, if he uses "1997 copyright by Joe Smith", is it going to conflict
with the copyright statement of a previous copy of the FAQ I maintain on
a Web server which still keeps obsolete FAQ's?
I wonder if Terry Caroll is still reading here in this mailing list. The
copyright issue with FAQ's seems to show up on the cyberspace only since
here we have a "transfer" option while other CD's, books, softwares, and
so on, do not have such a 'transfer' option.
I sincerely hope others who have transfered the maintainence of FAQ's
can show me what to do.