On 5/5/01, Stan Schwarz wrote:
>I have a question about replacing a FAQ maintainer. One of the groups
>I'm involved in has a case where the FAQ maintainer left in a huff nearly
>two years ago. The FAQ used to be posted monthly, but she posted it just
>once, just over a year ago. She refuses to post the FAQ, and also
>refuses to give it up to someone else to care for it. What can we do
>about this, save junking it and writing a whole new one?
Not much, if she wrote the FAQ originally: she owns the copyright on
it and thus the right to determine how it can be distributed, unless
it has been posted with language clearly stating it's in the public
domain.
If someone else originally wrote the FAQ and she took it over at some
point, updating and maintaining it, the original author can give
someone else permission to produce derivative works (rewrite, update,
maintain) if the original author has not explicitly transferred the
copyright to someone else.
Unless this is the case, the best course of action would be to write
a new FAQ. (The simplest course of action would be to update the FAQ
and start posting it again, giving due credit to the previous
maintainer, and hope she doesn't think it's worthwhile to pursue
legal action for the copyright infringement.)
Copyrights FAQ: http://www.rexx.com/~jaguar/copyright.html
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