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There are a few additional issues to consider. I don't think that Mr Fishman 
ever made it a requirement that NAFEX give up copyright. It was considered at 
one point years ago but that is all as far as I can tell.

Personally I feel a little uncomfortable about the idea of Nafex giving up 
copyright to an individual. What is the NAFEX handbook without the NAFEX 
oranization? Why should ANY organization be persuaded to give up rights to a 
publication that carries its name and LOGO? Without nafex what would Mr 
Fishman have had to write about? What purpose would a NAFEX handbook have 
without NAFEX?

It has also come to my attention that apparently others in NAFEX were 
involved in various ways in the writing and production of the handbook and 
received little or no credit or compensation. Not that they were undeserving 
or that their contributions were without weight or merit. They simply never 
made an issue of it. The Handbook was not entirely a one man production but a 
product of the organization as a whole.

The arrangement regarding copyright ensures that nothing is done without the 
consent and agreement of all the parties involved. I'm not so sure this is a 
bad arrangement. 

However, if an agreement cannot be reached... would it not make more sense 
for Mr Fishman to give up copyright if there seemed a need for one party or 
the other to do so. After all, as much as I may like and respect the man and 
consider him a gifted writer,... 

  it is not the "Ram Fishman Handbook" is it?

Tom Booth


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