----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Larry, You would know the legalities better than I, and those would seem to depend on the copyright holder. On the ethical question, I wouldn't think it ever proper to remove a co-author's name from a work unless the entirety of his or her contribution were removed and the work no longer informed in any way by that co-author's previous contribution. A change in title would seem to be called for in that case, unless it is a generic one. In the case of Oser, I believe that his was the beginning organization of the work and I can't imagine a co-author so low as to drop Oser's name unless the work was completely the co-author's now--including substance, interpretations, style, etc. As a reviewer, you couldn't fail to reveal that the work originally had a co-author; if you didn't, someone who was aware of that fact would wonder at the thinness of your apparent knowledge of the field. And, this is aside from the moral question. If I thought a deleted co-author was being done to, I'd say so. I don't see any difference between textbook and scholarly work, so far as ethics is concerned. In fact, if the scholarly work is truly scholarly--i.e., contains original scholarship--it would have to be an entirely different work to drop a co-author. In which case, it would be a new work and the "co-author's" name was never relevant. Catch 22, anyone? Sam Bostaph ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]