At 12:16 -0700 2000/9/5, Richard M. Alderson III wrote:
>It seems to me (IANAL) that a FAQ has a compilation copyright (like a book of
>essays or of short stories, all by differest authors), but that copyright of
>various parts belongs to the original authors of the answers
>contributed unless
>they have been explictly assigned to the FAQ maintainer. Note that: Even the
>mailing list itself refers to us as "maintainers" rather than as "authors".
Note that you can't copyright information, only the expression of
information. If the author or maintainer of the FAQ receives
contributions from others and includes the text verbatim, then those
portions of text might not come under the description of 'the work.'
In that case, the author (or maintainer) should acknowledges those
contributions and claim copyright over (1) the remainder of the text,
and (2) the work as a compilation.
If the author or maintainer of the FAQ receives information and
rewords that information, incorporating it into his work, he can
claim copyright over the whole of it.
-- ________________________________________ Lewis S. Eisen leisen@pfx.on.caComputer Training and Consulting Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <http://www.magma.ca/~leisen>
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