I'm certainly not a lawyer (Side note: lawyers don't take Viagra because it just makes them taller) but I have been chastised a few times on other forums for posting full articles, those doing the chastising were claiming I violated copyright law.
Charlie

On 10/28/2011 11:40 AM, Shane Ford wrote:
Yep! I know squat about law either. I would think this would be similar to making a personal copy of a cd and then lending it to a friend to listen to. Its a grey area but it usually falls under personal use. Does it not? You aren't gaining any thing by copying and pasting an article for us to read on this list. It helps most of us by not having to click on a bunch of links and use up even more data to read the same article.

The only negative that I can imagine against us is the missed advertising potential for the website due to the lack of clicks by most on this list. I argue against this with my own experience. I'm on a limited data plan. I get 2GB each month. I'm picky about the links I click on or the audio/video stuff I download or use.

I'm not a lawyer, so I would be curious to hear from one.

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On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:21 AM, John Vega <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Randy Lyons wrote:

In the past, it was always Gatornews policy to post articles, not links, but apparently that has changed.

I prefer articles, and when I find an article appropriate for posting, I copy, paste and post.

That said, we are in a gray "fair use" area as to copyright law when we post an entire article.

If someone finds an article that others have missed but doesn't feel comfortable posting the whole article, a link seems like a good solution.

-Zeb


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