Can you put the internet on this floppy for me?

[triskellian]

Dear Ms Rights Person
Please can I use some material from a book published by your company? I would like to use it in an online newsletter (it's a webpage. The last one is here), which is edited by me and the guy what wrote the book.
Love from
triskellian

Dear triskellian
How many people will your web page be distributed to?
Love from
Ms Rights Person


I suppose this is the point at which metame or someone points out a reason her question is sensible, but it seems pretty silly to me ;-)

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

How many people will your web page be distributed to?

That's silly.

However : "How many people will have access to your web page ?"

Might be closer to her meaning.

since you asked...

[metame.livejournal.com]

reckon so - either 'anyone', 'subscription', or 'student body' etc.

Although she might misunderstand online enough to want an estimate of usage from you.

Most probably she's bored and not thinking very hard - permissions are the dullest part of Rights jobs. You can't ignore them or copyright gets eroded, but they aren't exactly stimulating.