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Subject:Re: Do you give permission to use your materials? From:"Michelle Wolfe" <WOLFEM -at- bcbsil -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:05:48 -0600
Megan wrote:
<<Do any techwhirlers give permission to others to use what they've written?
Does anyone see any really big pitfalls to this "open" approach where I make
my document source available to others to mold for their own uses?>>
I don't know about other consultants, but I never "own" what I write. The copyright belongs to whoever pays my invoices. If they choose to release the copyright to someone else, it is their call. I have no say in it whatsoever.
