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Subject:RE: Do you give permission to use your materials? From:MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- mainsaver -dot- com> To:"'Megan Golding'" <megan -dot- golding -at- dvtsensors -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:06:00 -0800
Strictly speaking, the manuals you write for the company aren't yours to
give away.
They--and their copyright--belong to the company who pays you to write them.
Permission needs to come from someone besides yourself.
Cheers!
Maggie Secara
secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com
A Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603)
is at http://ren.dm.net
Leap, and the net will appear.
--Orson Wells
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Megan Golding [SMTP:megan -dot- golding -at- dvtsensors -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 12:04 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Do you give permission to use your materials?
>
> I work for a small company writing manuals . A customer of ours wants to
> customize existing training manuals that I wrote. I wonder how frequently
> writers give permission to use sections of their manuals. I told our
> customer I'd waiver the copyright for them and provide them source
> documents
> to take sections they need for their materials.
>
