Here's the copyright portion from my list guidelines. Anyone who wants
the whole document, plus the FAQ, can send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
it will be sent automatically.
8. Absolutely no violations of copyrights, trademarks, service marks,
logos, etc. will be permitted. Do not repost news stories from wire
services or online services, material you found on web sites, or type
in stories or someone's column from your local newspaper. The author of
private e-mail also holds a copyright on it, and has a right not to have
that e-mail reposted anywhere without consent. However, e-mail sent
to the List Manager will be treated like mail sent to 'letters to the
editor' at a newspaper. For a brief introduction to the issue of
copyrights, especially in cyberspace, see
http://www.clarinet.com/brad/copymyths.html.
Posting the URL of web pages with Husker content on them is generally
permitted and encouraged, but posting the text from someone's web page
without explicit permission is a copyright violation and is not permitted.
The issue of whether links violate copyright is as of yet undecided,
though, so this could change based on future court rulings. Posters
are strongly encouraged to give a short summary of the information to
be found on a web page when posting its URL, both as a courtesy to those
subscribers who do not have web capability and as an aid for those
with limited time, so that they only need hit the sites that they are
the most likely to find informative.
If you must quote from a published source, do so very sparingly,
paraphrasing is better. Raw facts cannot be copyrighted, so game
statistics are permitted, but analysis of those statistics would be an
'intellectual act' and thus protected under the copyright law. Posts
which violate the law or encourage someone else to violate the law are
also forbidden.
Significant copyright violations, whether inadvertent or otherwise, may
result in immediate sanctions against the poster.
