Re: Do you give permission to use your materials?

["Michele Marques" <mmarques -at- cms400 -dot- com>]

"Megan Golding" <megan -dot- golding -at- dvtsensors -dot- com> writes:

> [ deleted] A customer of ours wants to
> customize existing training manuals that I wrote. I wonder how frequently
> writers give permission to use sections of their manuals. I told our
> customer I'd waiver the copyright for them and provide them source documents
> to take sections they need for their materials. [deleted]

We do this for some documents, but not others. For example, our 
reference manuals are available on-line in a format that customers 
can copy the text. We do this so that customers can create their 
own custom job instructions for staff - for example, combining our 
description of the purposes of various data entry fields with 
company standards for acceptable data entry.

For other documents we do not provide source. For example, we 
have a course that we feel would benefit customers most when 
taken at our site; this course is also a source of revenue for us. We 
do not allow customers to copy the book for that class and do not 
sell that book separately. Other documents that may not be copied 
may contain proprietary information or may describe a process that 
we cannot recommend if modified.


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Michele Marques
Lead Technical Communicator, CMS Manufacturing Systems
mmarques -at- cms400 -dot- com        
905-477-4499 x280