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Subject:Re: [Q] Charging for ownership of a document From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:06:46 -0500
David Girardot wrote:
>
> For those of you who retain ownership of work you do for your clients, have
> you ever had a client who wanted to "buy" the rights to a document? If so,
> how did you figure out what to charge them?
>
This is not meant to be as flip as it will sound. I tell them it is not
not for sale and negotiate from there.
--
Peter
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promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
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