At 4:59 PM -0700 10/31/2010, Al Poulin wrote:
On Oct 31, 2:03 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> But more importantly -- it is, um, inappropriate to re-post
complete copyrighted works without the author's permission. Was
such permission obtained?
>
Nannies -- If permission was not obtained the pirated data should
be deleted from our archive.
Further dissemination of copyrighted material is sometimes
inappropriate and illegal. But not in cases such as this. Three
points:
The article is attributed to the author and the publisher.
The original web page invites "Share This Article."
The original web page provides an "E-mail" icon, a "Print" icon, and a
"PDF Version" icon.
It is quite common for publishers to provide mechanisms to let you
make ONE OFF copies of an article for PERSONAL use. Doing so does
not magically make their copyright protections vanish. ... Think
about that. Are you saying that because a book is available in a
Public Library that it's suddenly ok to steal the book from another
source?
In this case, the article was ***REPUBLISHED*** *IN FULL* BY THE
POSTER to thousands of people. Beyond the copyright violation, there
is a sleeze factor here. It was filched from a commercial web site,
that depends on advertising dollars to survive. Mass-republishing
without the ads has ripped them off AND potentially made LEM liable.
<http://www.ziffdavisenterprise.com/TermsofService.asp>
In particular, see sections 2.2 and 2.3.
"you may not modify, publish, transmit," (etc)_
- Dan.
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