At 12:26 AM 9/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>How many of you explicitly copyright your FAQs in the text
>of the document. Why or why not?
I say "Copyright in this document is retained by the author, and it may not
be adapted or offered for sale or hire, in whole or in part, without prior
arrangement with Kade Hansson."
Copyright is implicit in most countries which are signatories to the Berne
convention, though it is easier to defend in countries like the US if you
explicitly state copyright. Better safe than sorry.
The reason for copyright in an FAQ is to retain control of the distribution
of your work. Obviously you don't expect monetary rewards for it, and you
accept its distribution via Usenet, and its archival on Usenet resource
sites, but equally you don't want others trying to make money off it in bad
faith. This has happened to me a couple of times, with a magazine or two
ripping parts out of my FAQ (and these are just the ones I know about) to
fill their pages. Not that I've ever taken these people to task, but it is
nice to know that I could...
On the net its a different matter. People who mirror my FAQ without
permission (usually an out-of-date copy too), in whole or in part, and are
unfortunate enough to have me find out about it soon get the third degree
via e-mail. All such people I have come across thus far have complied with
my requests to remove the material.
Needless to say, I denied the Electronic Manuals guy permission to promote
his rather antiquated product by giving him another piece of content to
flog with it. Free or not, I want nothing to do with an adaptation of my
work that I have no direct control over.
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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