On 13 Nov 2006 at 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Because I am always changing things, and it costs me a fortune, and I > think I might be a pain to the copyist with all the changes, yes, I > pay for them, I feel like I doing the copyist a favor by doing these > little things myself & not bothering him/her.
If that's the terms under which the engraver agreed to do the work, nobody is going to criticize it. It's the attempt to change those terms midstream that is the problem. I know for one that in my programming work if the client gets rights to the source code, I have to engineer the programming project completely differently to separate out components that I cannot license to the client (either my own code or code that is copyrighted by someone else). This costs more money because it's more work. Also, if a client buys the source code and does work on the project and then comes back to me for additional changes, I approach the project as though I've never seen it before, since I have no way of knowing what changes have been made. Likewise, I can offer no guarantee of anything working properly, since I'm not responsible for the whole thing. A Finale file is not quite the same, but if I were a professional engraver, I wouldn't want to be associated with an engraving that someone else was mucking around with, unless I were being paid on a strict hourly basis and was never held accountable for things taking a long time to fix. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
