[JONAT] Copyright issues explained.

[Alan Heartfield]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:44, SidPacks@aol.com wrote:

> Victor...good point on the copyright issues.  I suspect we have enough IT 
> types on the ....

My daughter the journalist just arrived from Ottawa.  She tells me the
story copyright may belong to the paper and it may belong to the
author.  It depends who 'pitched' the story.  In the case of the story
she wrote for the Ottawa Citizen, she pitched it, so she owns the
copyright.  Feel free to reproduce it on the jonat site.  
She also said that even when the paper owns the copyright, they usually
don't mind if it appears on other websites as long as some credit to the
paper is given - "Story originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen" for
example.  
Whether the rules are different in the US I don't know. 

Alan Heartfield
Winnipeg SC