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Subject: Re: Ethics of posting samples?
From: "CapDev Communications" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:15:51 -0800

This is an important discussion. I have recently been requested to produce
an ePortfolio for posting online. All of the work that I have done for the
past two years has been for a single client and every document has been
classified as either confidential or internal use only. It's part of my
contract not to share my client's documents with anyone. I have a great
working relationship with this client and I'm not going to risk this
relationship by trying to sanitize the work for inclusion in an ePortfolio.

I'm working around my dilemma, but I thought that people in this discussion
might want to know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of
1998. I read about this in PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATORS by Herb J. Smith and Kim Haimes-Korn (2007), published by
Pearson Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-170458-3. Excerpt: "For example, you
decide to create a Web-hosted version of your portfolio and protect access
to it with password protection technology. Someone bypasses the technology,
views your portfolio, and downloads your copyrighted files. Under the DMCA,
that activity is illegal because this person has bypassed a technology
designed specifically to protect a digital work."

Chapter 6 of PORTFOLIOS FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS
discusses legal and ethical issues affecting portfolios.

Years ago I did consulting for a professor of intellectual properties at a
prominent law school in New York. An important issue with copyright is
enforcement. How do you know when someone has violated copyrights,
especially in such a wide-open space as the Web?

FYI,
Pat

On 1/30/07, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:


Hi, folks. I'm considering creating a web page with links to pdfs of
various
docs I've written. Then, I can simply point potential clients to the page
and they can look at whatever type of sample they want.

What do you think of the issue of posting unedited excerpts? Product
names,
etc., would pop up here and there.

I'm guessing I need to edit out product names and other identifying terms.
What would you do?

--Nancy
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