RE: Editing test on my website?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

Thank you, Geoff. Yes, that was the reason, of course -- copyright. It
became clear to me on another list, after reading comments of folks there,
that I was mixing up plagiarism and copyright. I had forgotten that any use
for income of even a work derived from a copyrighted work was prohibited.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hart [mailto:ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca] 
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:36 AM
> To: TECHWR-L; Bonnie Granat
> Subject: Editing test on my website?
> 
> Bonnie Granat wondered: <<My contract fizzled this week, so I 
> am back  
> in the game, so to speak.>>
> 
> Sympathies. Best of luck finding fun new work!
> 
> <<Anyway, I took an editing test today. I was asked to  
> developmentally edit and line edit an article for a company that was  
> published on the Web more than two years ago. If I do not get the  
> assignment, is there any reason for me not to use the test as an  
> example of my editing on my website?>>
> 
> The best reason in the world: the test is copyrighted in the name of  
> the person who wrote it. Your edits are indeed your own intellectual  
> property, but you can't republish the original text without the  
> author's permission.
> 


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