Subj : Re: alternate routing chart
To   : Michael Grant
From : Lesley-Dee Dylan
Date : Sat Apr 28 2001 02:56 pm

 MG> If she's the author,
 MG> she has the right to restrict distribution, doesn't she?

Not quite.  If she holds an official position in an organization, part of which 
entails, as part of the duties, the compiling and distribution of a list, 
needed by the organization, then she does not have the right to withhold 
distribution from certain people.

Also, I disagre with the use of the term author.  That term implies an original 
work.  A compilation is NOT an original work.  Particularly when the compiler 
is only compiling information gathered by others, not even researching and 
finding the data for herself.

I have been working on compiling an index of genealogical resources for the 
County of Montgomery, in Wales.  That is a much bigger project than any 
routelist for Fido.  It also involves finding some pretty obscure documents, 
manuscripts, and books, and spending hours and hours under a black hood reading 
and translating microfilm of 17th century sheepskin manuscripts written in 
pigin Latin by semi-literate priests.  Whether or not even this document 
constitutes an "original work" worthy of the credit of authorship is doubtful. 
It is doubtful if it is even copyrightable.  It's just a list.



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