Re: Copyright verbiage for PDF manual

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

What about providing them with the express written permission as part of
their license agreement? Or in a "Read Me" on the CD?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nina Rogers <Nina -dot- Rogers -at- drakesoftware -dot- com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Our company decided this year to discontinue paper manuals and provide
> PDF and online-help versions only. This decision has had mixed responses
> from our customers-some are fine with it, while others are very upset
> about losing their paper manual. Of course, they are free to print parts
> (or all) of the PDF version for their use, if they really want to. Some
> customers have asked about having their manuals printed by a copying
> service like Kinko's or Staples, and they're concerned about our
> copyright, which currently says that "no part of this document or
> associated online documentation may be reproduced or transmitted in any
> form or by any means without the express written permission" of our
> company.
>
>
>
> I'm looking for samples of copyright verbiage (or information about
> copyright laws) for this particular situation-I want customers to know
> that they can print a copy for their own use, but at the same time we
> want to maintain our copyright and obviously don't want them printing
> multiple copies and selling them (I don't foresee this happening, but I
> want the copyright statement to cover this base, just in case).
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Nina Rogers, Technical Writer
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