Re: Same content for multiple clients

[Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I just don't think there's any way that "Press Enter"
can be plagiarism, or we're all in serious trouble.
:-)

However, I think if I were in this situation, I'd have
to tell Client #2 that I just wrote the book they want
for someone else. If they want a different focus, or
are targeting a different audience, that would make a,
y'know, difference.  Maybe Client #1 wanted something
for beginners and Client #2 wants something for the
Sophisticated User.  If you take a new tack, you're no
longer writing the same book.


Maggie Secara

--- DaveC <peninsula -at- covad -dot- net> wrote:
> 
> I haven't yet seen the topic of ownership brought
> up.
> 
> Hasn't the first client paid you for the document?
> Don't they own it 
> completely, now? Wouldn't reusing your own words
> constitute 
> plagiarism, even if you wrote the words first?
> 
> A bit of a conundrum, that.
> 

=====
Maggie Secara

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