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From: Caroline Gurney <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Client querying copyright restriction
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:03:12 +0100
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On 15 April 2012 02:30, Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist
<> wrote:

> My right to future employment also rests on my ability to protect my copyrighted work and to protect my reputation from those people.

> Each of us as business people should think through issues such as this and include them in our business model and best practices.  My contracts have room for negotiation on several points, no negotiations on other points. The ladies who clean my house don't do windows; the photographer who takes portraits of my grandkids keeps copyright of those photos; my doctor makes me pay before I leave the foyer for the exam room.  We all need employment, and boundaries within which we and our clients are willing to work.

Thank you, Dee Dee. Your advice and your very apt analogies are much
appreciated.

Caroline Gurney
www.carolinegurney.com

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