Re: Copyright

[Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM>]

At 02:03 PM 3/16/96 -0800, Richard Mateosian wrote:
>>On my personal web page there is a story for children that I change every
>>once in a while.  The story is meant to entertain the children of our
>>family.  I don't care if someone unknown to me reads the story.  I care a
>>great deal if they take the story and publish it under their own name.

>Suppose they keep a version that you later decide you don't like, and they
>redistribute it free of charge with full credit to you?  ...RM

>Richard Mateosian                                Freelance Technical Writer
>srm -at- c2 -dot- org                   Copyright 1996       Review Editor, IEEE Micro
>http://www.c2.org/~srm/    All rights reserved      President, Berkeley STC

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I'm not encouraging strangers to read the stories or to take them.  They're
simply quick little stories to entertain kids.  If you want to read my
*great* works, you'll have to buy the books.  <grin>

If someone redistributes a story and gives me credit, I suppose that's a
kind of recognition, is it not?

If someone put *my* stories on *their* web page without credit, I'd come
down on them as hard as I could.  However, I recognize there is a risk of
that happening and accept it.  You can also link to my stories without
taking them away and calling them yours.

I used to write stories on my daughter's lunch bags.  She complained that
the teachers were taking them and keeping them.  They were *her* stories.  A
word to the teachers was sufficient.

Marilynne
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