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> Subject: RE: Client misunderstanding of public domain
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> Jim wrote:
>
> All of those manuals and instruction sheets and other stuff
> that is put
> on
> the Web is owned by the companies and people who worked to
> assemble it -
> these people and institutions own the copyright of all that creative
> work.
> It is not in the public domain just because it is publicly available.
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> What about cross-pollination of graphics and text within a
> company? If I
> find a graphic or some text used in one AT&T document, can I use it in
> another AT&T document without permission?
>
I'm sure AT&T has a policy about that for its writers. Quite possibly,
marketing wants its own unique graphics for purposes of customer
recognition. Sometimes people remember sites not by their names but by their
most prominent visual image.
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