Laura, I read this after sending the re-posting of Copyright/Ethics/Accuracy. If I were you, I'd try getting in touch with Gary B Hoffman and the other two copyright specialists who wrote those articles. Your query doesn't seem easy to answer, unless it's covered in the articles. I too would fear that I couldn't copyright my own work. I still think you should put communication with this person into writing, as he appears capable of twisting your words; it then becomes a matter of "he says, she says." Good luck. --------------- dsOn Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:46:49 -0600 "Laura & Brad Koehn" <[email protected]> writes: Regarding the case of my family member publishing my work on CD's. He says that he is going to copyright the work in his own name and also in mine. (Keep in mind that I expressly told him NOT to publish MY work.) Should I let him go ahead and copyright his CD's in my name. Or should I tell him NOT to copyright in my name? Can he even do that? Shouldn't I do that myself? If he copyrights the ged-com information that I gave him before me, how does that affect my own copyright when I publish my book? Laura [email protected]