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The job of the editor is to change words. If the editor gained the
copyright by changing words, then nobody would use an editor.
Fran
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 11:07:53 -0700 Margaret Lauterbach
<melauter@earthlink.net> writes:
> Seems to me that you copyright exact wording. Someone else can use
> your
> idea and rephrase it in their own words, and it's not a violation of
>
> copyright. If an editor changes some words, eliminates others,
> etc.,
> he/she has changed the wording so someone else may copyright it.
> That's my
> opinion, anyway. Margaret L
>
> >I recently had an editor tell me that even though I don't give away
> or
> >assign copyright to a publication, the publication gets the
> copyright of
> >my edited version.
Fran Gustman, Editor
HortResources Newsletter
New England Horticultural Resources Network
Boston, MA
fgustman@juno.com
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