Mark Ryan wrote:
On 18/05/07, sean(a)epoptic.com <sean(a)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