daytripper wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:38:28 -0800 (PST), David Kanter
<dkanter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you ever heard of copyright infringement? Because you just
>> posted my article without attribution, and you have no rights to
>> reprint or re-use my article.
>>
>> DK
>
> Ever hear of the "Fair Use Doctrine"? If not, you really ought to become
> familiar with it. It clearly covers his ass quite well.
Not "quite well" IMHO.
Posting the link plus a short excerpt would have been fine, as it is
David possibly lost a _lot_ of page views which would have generated
real income for him.
>
> He *did* post a link to the original article, so it was obvious he
wasn't
> trying to claim originality.
>
> It was clearly stupid of him to paste the content here when the link
would
> have sufficed - a senseless waste of bytes (Oh! The humanity!) but the
> omission of full attribution here is a hand-slappable offense, nothing
more...
Consider him slapped then.
Terje
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- <Terje.Mathisen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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