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Subject:RE: What's the definition of a published author From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:26:18 -0500
Is that true in the strictly legal sense, though -- i.e., for copyright purposes?
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From: Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- alltel -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: What's the definition of a published author
No. Published means that someone has accepted and printed an article or a book that you submitted, either on speculation or on request. If your book were published by Vantage or some other subsidy publisher, then YOU might say you were a published author, but nobody else would.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:16:45 -0800, Wade Courtney <courtney -at- hsq -dot- com> wrote:
> Am I published by virtue of having written user guides for a software
> package. I'm filling out a questionnaire and whether I was published
> or not was one of the questions.
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