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PDF hilarity (was: Should a PDF include "Printed in Country" phrase ?)
Subject:PDF hilarity (was: Should a PDF include "Printed in Country" phrase ?) From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:30:37 -0400
At two employers, where a deliverable has been an online PDF, I have had
to mud-wrestle the lawyers over the "may not be copied" "may not be
duplicated" "may not be printed without permission" standard verbiage.
It's pretty funny. The legal beagles just don't seem to get that the
point is to permit copying, printing, and duplicating of the PDF across
machines with the appropriate software installed.
As a side question, do lawyers actually use computers?
Cheers and giggles,
Sean
P.S. I suppose am being a tad unfair. I have run across many bonafide
STC members who don't "get" PDF, either.
It may well be that she can strip it out of the doc, but *I* wouldn't do
it
without checking with the lawyers. At PTC, that page is *untouchable*
without a legal department directive to change it. You cannot lose
anything
by double-checking with the lawyers. Maybe I'm full of hooey and they'll
laugh at her. I told her privately that that might be the case, but that
if
I were faced with this question, I would let them tell me it's okay.
(Talk
about Pavlovian response!)
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