Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:01:15 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 20:34:34, Micheal Cummings wrote: >On October 12, 1999 at 12:37:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>Please do not copy entire web pages into posts. The people who authored the >>material for use on the web sites may rightfully object to this. >> >>If you are going to include a large body of text written and published elsewhere >>by someone else, please get permission from them first, and note in your post >>that you obtained permission. >> >>bruce > >From what I know about copyright in my country, it is okay to copy (as long as >you state who the author is and where you copied it from) Letters or acrticles >or notices like Ed posted in one of his posts regarding Deep blue. > >There is some line about the amount of information that can be copied, but I >think that is like 16 A4 pages of writing before you need permission or >something like that. > >Better if you define what the rules are, some maybe okay, while other may be >breaking. This kind of thing cannot be left up to your personal judgement unless >you know the exact rules. > >I have seen writings legally given credit to the author but they still do not >want things published, and when they take these people to court the writer >usually loses. Newspapers do this all the time. Next time someone complains that their copyrighted material has been used without permission I would like to invite you to spend a half hour of your own time deleting posts and writing email. Is that a fair compromise? bruce
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