Re: Portfolios and writing samples...a little more

[Elizabeth Ross <beth -at- VCUBED -dot- COM>]

<snip>
| But I wonder (I'm not a lawyer; I don't know) about material that is
| published but *not* publically available. If you want one of the manuals
| I produce, you have to buy our company's product. You can't walk into
| your local bookstore or surf over to Amazon.com and pick up a copy
| of the RRI OCRepair User's Guide. You can't even get it off our web
| site unless you have a password. It is licensed with the product. And
| since I did *not* buy the product, I don't think I'm legally entitled to a
| copy of the documentation, even though I wrote it. Simply taking a copy
| with me without permission would, I think, be stealing.
|
| And interestingly enough, I am in the process of changing jobs and
| did just ask my employer if I could take copies. He said yes, but
| with the caveat that I cannot *leave* the document with a new
| perspective client - which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Good point. Although I brought the document to the interview, I did not
allow it to be copied. Any lawyerly types out there who can address the
legality question?

Elizabeth Ross
Technical Writer
V3 Semiconductor Corp.
beth -at- vcubed -dot- com
http://www.vcubed.com

 From ??? -at- ??? Sun Jan 00 00:00:00 0000=