On Oct 31, 10:15 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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)_
My bad, Dan is correct. Giving the reference URL and title of the item is the legal and acceptable method. Also, it reduces bandwidth on the list. There remains one question that begs resolution. I download an article as legally authorized. I cannot legally store it electronically. But, immediately and before I can delete it, Time Machine puts it away. Worse yet, innocent and clueless folks in major corporations download the same article, and it ends up stored in corporate servers. I do not think that the written law has caught up with such ramifications of evolving technology. So how does the written law get interpreted today? Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
