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Subject:Re: Do you give permission to use your materials? From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:40:55 -0600
As a consultant myself, I have to echo what Michelle wrote. My portfolio materials are mine to use in my portfolio because the clients have given me permission to use them. I do not own them, have no right to distribute them.
Consequently, I guard them jealously.
This is an area where there is so much gray we must tread lightly, take the highest, most ethical ground possible, I think. At least, that's the rule I follow, and it actually makes my life a lot easier. So many difficult decisions
I don't have to consider as a result.
Jo Byrd
Michelle Wolfe wrote:
> Megan wrote:
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> <<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?>>
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> 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.
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> Also, my name never appears on my work.
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> Michelle Wolfe
