Mark Ryan wrote:
On 18/05/07, sean@epoptic.com sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Dear smart people:
What procedure I should follow when someone denies that I do not own a copyright that in fact I do own?
Forward scanned copies of the documents assigning you the rights to the WMF, so they can assign it an OTRS ticket number? A letter from the publishers you mentioned would help, too, I suppose.
If there is a documented assignment of rights this should pose no problems. In the long term, however, we need to be more open and less bureaucratic when rights are claimed by inheritance. Books that were written long ago are often forgotten when wills are written, or if there is an intestacy. Things can get worse when we are two of three generations removed, or there are large families.
Ec