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Re: Portfolios and writing samples...a little more
Subject:Re: Portfolios and writing samples...a little more From:Cam Whetstone <camw -at- ROCKETMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:40:11 -0700
---Elizabeth Ross <beth -at- VCUBED -dot- COM> wrote:
>
> * The software User's Manual which I wrote for the same company was
> printed en masse and shipped in the box with the commercially
> available product. Everyone who bought VideoCardX got a copy of "my"
> manual. This was the writing sample I brought to the interview.
>
The document was not published. It was provided as part of a purchase
of the equipment (software) it described. That makes it proprietary.
Call the company and ask them to send you a copy. Tell them you don't
won the woftware, but you just want to read it. See what they say.
In some cases they may sell it to you. If so the copy you took was
stealing. It is not rocket science, bt it is copywritght law. And
your work was 'work for hire' under that law.
Cam Whetstone
old timey tech writer
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