Re: Copyright/trademark information request

[Kat Nagel/MasterWork <katnagel -at- EZNET -dot- NET>]

>If you find a piece of your work on the web with you byline, with changes,
>and without your permission, it *is* a violation of copyright, isn't it?

Yes.


>And if you request that the piece be removed -- or that, given the errors
>that have been introduced, at least you byline be deleted and you're
>ignored -- what recourse do you have?

Are you a member of the National Writers Union or the ASJA?  Both
organizations have committees that will help members who are being ripped
off this way.

If not, make friends with a lawyer <grin>.


@Kat _______________________________ katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
Kat Nagel      MasterWork Consulting Services, Rochester, NY
Technical writing / Document design /  Publications planning

"The transformation of calories into words, of words into money, and of
money into calories again are the three basic cycles in a freelance
writer's metabolism."
/Mary Kittredge, _Poison Pen_


K@
Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting Services, katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
Technical writing / Editing / Document design / Research

"The first rule of holes is that when you're standing
in one up to your eyeballs, stop digging."
____________________ J.A. Jance, in  _Lying in Wait_

 TECHWR-L (Technical Communication) List Information: To send a message
to 2500+ readers, e-mail to TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU -dot-  Send commands
   to LISTSERV -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU (e.g. HELP or SIGNOFF TECHWR-L).
  Search the archives at http://www.documentation.com/  or search and
browse the archives at http://listserv.okstate.edu/archives/techwr-l.html