Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 22:32:46 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 21:01:15, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I am not having a go at you bruce, so I hope you do not get the impression I am. Just that so many people copyright things for their safety on what they write or create, but do not understand what copyright can and cannot do for them. From what I thought copyright is there so no one person or group can use someone elses work to gain from it in profit or use it to gain profit. So if someone writes a small article or comment and someone posts this then as long as they state who wrote it and where they got it from then it is okay. If they have written something which they have gone on and sold, like a book, you can take (small) extracts from that book and write them somewhere else as long as it is not used in anyway to gain profit from using the given peice of writing, and as long as you state the author and where you got it from. Individual country copyright laws differ from what some regard as international standards for copyright. So unless someone posts a whole article or book from someone who wrote it for a finacial profit, then I will tell then to get stuffed, that is what freedom of speech is, and if they live in a country that does not allow this kind of thing, then I would love to see them to try and win their case outside their country. Unless it had to do with religion, then they have got no chance. So basically it comes down to if you care what this person feels when he does not want this information he wrote not used anywhere else. And in most cases no one cares, thats the interent and media for you. But as for offending copyright, well that is subjective depending where you come from.
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