Re: web page management

["Brig C. McCoy" <brigc@WORLD.STD.COM>]

At 08:46 PM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>[snip]I explained to
>them that copyright was a legal, contractual matter. They could not legally
>claim ownership for the home page of a public school. They did not pay the
>phone bill nor the Internet service provider. They did not provide the
>computer, modem, building, software, etc., used to produce the home page.
>They did not set Internet policy--the School Board's policy was already in
>the District's Policy Manual.
Unless you had a signed contract with them ahead of time, or the ownership
of the web pages put on the server was addressed specifically in the policy
manual before they started work on the pages, the work was theirs according
to copyright law...

Regardless of who owns the facility used to display the work...

In the same way that an artwork done by a student for a class is his, they
did the work, therefore, they own the copyright.

Now this doesn't mean that you can't remove it from your web server, but
you don't necessarily own the work.

...brig
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Brig C. McCoy                    - Automation Consultant
Southeast Kansas Library System  - BRIGC@WORLD.STD.COM
218 East Madison Street          - 316 365-5136
Iola, KS  66749                  - 316 365-5137, Fax

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