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Re: Asking for Author Credit In The Documentation?
Subject:Re: Asking for Author Credit In The Documentation? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:54:41 -0400
Susan W. Gallagher wrote:
> Yabbut... I'm listening to what Steve said, and I hear Lee's
> response... But think. If you pay a company to develop a web
> site for you, you get the web site of your dreams and way down
> at the bottom in the footer in the smallest and most unobtrusive
> type, is a "developed by" credit that I'll wager nobody negotiated
> for and nobody objected to, it was just done. <whew! that was a
> sentence, wasn't it! <g>)
>
It's usually part of the agreement between the parties. It's not just
thrown in there at the end.
> So why can't we do the same thing? Because we're not the marketing
> whizzes our marcomm counterparts are? Think about it.
>
This kind of thing is agreed to in the contract that both parties sign
before work begins.
> My question -- Has anybody just gone and done it -- put a "developed
> by" credit in the docs? Did you get called on it? Inquiring minds
> wanna know!
>
I would think doing something like that would be something to be
assiduously avoided because of its highly negative consequences to one's
professional and personal reputation.
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