Yes... Exactly... That is my situation. I am using a class file by siggraph just to get the layout of the document and the document in no way contains any information taken from information copyrighted by Siggraph. And yes, that copyright information was added by Siggraph to protect my document. The best analogy I can give perhaps is reusing a freely available template to structure your own document.
Oh and by the way, thank you for your time, John On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 10:52:52 John Adams wrote: > > No... I wasn't asking how to remove the copyright of Siggraph. It was > more > > like, it was putting a copyright for a document that I am authoring which > I > > don't really need for a class report. This is a one time document and > > that's it. In any case, the copyright that was being put goes something > > like this: > > > > *"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work > for > > personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are > > not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that > copies > > bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy > > otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, > > requires prior specific permission and/or a fee."* > > > > Is it still a problem? > > If I understand you correctly, no. As I understand the preceding, YOU > authored > all the content in this document. Siggraph wrote absolutely none of the > document. As I understand the preceding, Siggraph simply, for some reason, > added that copyright language in case YOU might want it, and they provided > a > switch (*copyrightwanted =) to remove it. If that's true, I personally > would > have no problem with your removing it, and although I'm not a lawyer I'd > bet > heavily that removing it is perfectly legal. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
