Re: Washington Post's copyright in its articles ought to be respected.

[Guest guest]

Aside from stirring the pot on political topics we should leave alone

for a while, posting

> © 2004 The Washington Post Company

copyrighted material really is not appropriate. Just because it is

available in convenient digital form does not make it any more proper

(or any more legal) to duplicate copyrighted material without

permission.

The proper and legal way to refer to copyrighted material is to provide

a hotlink to the site owned by the copyright holder on which the

material is available. If that site is not freely accessible to the

public then reproducing it is doubly naughty.

Andy . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .

[Guest guest]

What is " fair use " as defined in information provided by major

universities regarding the sharing of copyrighted items for non-profit uses?

eg,

The material in this post is distributed without profit to those

who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included

information for research and educational purposes.

For more information go to:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

<http://oregon.uoregon.edu/%7Ecsundt/documents.htm>

http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/documents.htm

<http://oregon.uoregon.edu/%7Ecsundt/documents.htm>

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this email for

purposes that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission

from the copyright owner.

andrewhallcutler wrote:

>Aside from stirring the pot on political topics we should leave alone

>for a while, posting

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>>© 2004 The Washington Post Company

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>copyrighted material really is not appropriate. Just because it is

>available in convenient digital form does not make it any more proper

>(or any more legal) to duplicate copyrighted material without

>permission.

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>The proper and legal way to refer to copyrighted material is to provide

>a hotlink to the site owned by the copyright holder on which the

>material is available. If that site is not freely accessible to the

>public then reproducing it is doubly naughty.

>

>Andy . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .

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[Guest guest]

> andrewhallcutler wrote:

> > posting

> >copyrighted material really is not appropriate. Just because it

is

> >available in convenient digital form does not make it any more

proper

> >(or any more legal) to duplicate copyrighted material without

> >permission.

I would like to add: in addition to the basic legal

problem with use of copyright material: POSTING

copyright material on this or ANY group is a

violation of 's terms of service.

Here is the terms of service page:

Item 6f is about copyright (and related issues).

Here is a special page has made for just copyright

issues:

http://docs./info/copyright/copyright.html

Please note they say that they may terminate your account.

I have actually heard some quite scary stories along these

lines--- I hope what I've heard is not true, as it is

really very frightening.

good wishes,

Moria

[Guest guest]

> What is " fair use " as defined in information provided by major

> universities regarding the sharing of copyrighted items for non-profit uses?

> eg,

> The material in this post is distributed without profit to those

> who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included

> information for research and educational purposes.

This ONLY applies to single copies, and ONLY if they are for purposes

of research or scholarship.

It does NOT apply to mass copying, for which universities do get

permission and pay royalties.

You might go to copyright.com where you will see how this works

explained.

Whether or not it is for profit has little to do with the copyright

issues we are discussing here, otherwise I could scan and post the NY

times as a hobby, charging no money, but bankrupting them and claiming

fair use. They own the material, nobody else can do anything with it

without their permission whether or not it is for profit. There are

limited exceptions to this for criticism, commentary, citation,

scholarship and research. If more than a very limited portion of a

work (e. g. article) is to be reproduced then fair use extends ONLY to

one copy and ONLY for scholarship or research.

Andy . . . . . .. . . . . .