Re: Re: OT: Copyrighted articles

[Guest guest]

Yes, it's safe to synopsize in your own words and give the link. Most

news articles do have a copyright statement at the bottom of it.

Not only would you have to pay for infringement or theft of

intellectual property, but you would have to appear in the District

Court of the state where it's copyrighted and also be liable for all

court and legal costs. I do all of my own trademark infringement

cases, so I'm familiar with both laws. You wouldn't believe some of

the cases out there, so be careful. I'm doing a case against Twitter

now and they're making me grovel and will probably (according to the

other cases against them) make me incur court costs (for which

I'll be reimbursed).

That's another subject altogether: TOS. Always read the terms of

service when signing up for these sites. Do you know that any info

that you put on Twitter they own and may sell or redistribute as they

see fit without compensation or notice to the originator of the info?

Yet they don't honor the US TM law.

Barth

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bbw> The safest thing for the group to do, in my opinion, and most interesting

thing for readers also, is to write what you found interesting in the article

and then put a link to where you read it.

bbw> I put out a post on the oil dispersants used in the Gulf and only put the

link but felt I should have put a statement with it as to what I found

interesting, which I didn't do but would have

bbw> been, " EPA questions safety of 75,000 barrels of oil dispersant being

sprayed daily in the Gulf " , rather than posting the llink without comment or

posting the entire thing and leaving it up to

bbw> reader to figure out why I posted it. That way you are posting the

information without any possible copyright infringement.

bbw> I know we have been and no one has been sued or knows anyone who has been,

but it's like speeding. You can do it alot and not get a ticket but that's no

guarantee some day you won't be pulled

bbw> over and have to pay out a lot of money, which *I don't have.

bbw> Some articles say nothing about copyright but they are from online

magazines and such that may have it on their home page or some other page that

applies to all content, but many times people

bbw> post whole article and copyright statement is right there associated with

article and if I put it through, then I have handled it also and I don't want to

have to pay for the damages someone may

bbw> decide to seek.

bbw> The issue of whether you can copy or not is in dispute on the net but I

figure better safe than sorry.