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PS:if they don't have internet see below :) :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Thank You - [Biofuel] Fallujah 101: A history lesson aboutthe
town we are currently destroying
Hello Phillip
Dear Keith,
Thank you for the excellent history leasson.
You're most welcome, glad you like it.
And once
again thank you for hosting this listserv.
You're most welcome once again!
Am I
allowed to forward your article to my peers? Or cut
and paste?
Allowed... well. It's perhaps a touchy question and there's no clear
answer to it. It's copyright material. Strictly speaking, you should ask
the permission of the copyright holder, and so should I have done. I'm not
at all against copyright (I own quite a lot of it after all), but the
global Internet has made a hopeless mess out of the copyright and
intellectual property laws, and WIPA is years behind what commonly happens
in daily practice. There are millions of "offenders" every day, and
obviously the media and publishers know about it, but I've never seen them
taking any action to prevent it. In fact there's a strong case that it
helps them much more than hinders them, even where there's a hard-copy
print publication involved.
Some sites attach notices like this one from Common Dreams (there's also
such a notice at our online libraries at Journey to Forever):
"FAIR USE NOTICE. This site contains copyrighted material the use of which
has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are
making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of
environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific,
and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use'
of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US
Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for
research and educational purposes. For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use
copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go
beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner."
So would you or any of your peers happen not to be/reside/work in the US
but in India, Holland, Vanuatu or scores of other countries where the laws
are different? We get website visitors from 180 countries, and we're not
in the US either (though our host is). So that also doesn't make a lot of
sense. Nonetheless we all slap on a Fair Use notice and hope for the best,
while often stretching what Fair Use actually allows to the limit and
perhaps beyond.
What it seems to boil down to is that it's okay as long as there's no
money involved, not in any way, not even costs of photocopying and so on,
even if it's for educational or charitable purposes, nor even as a freebie
giveaway add-on to something you charge money for.
Anyway, Phillip, having bored you half to death with that rather silly
proviso, yes, please, go right ahead and forward it to your heart's
content, though of course you didn't hear it from me, I'd never tell you
such a thing. :-) In such cases always include the full source, credits
and url. One other thing - all that makes this auto-line some email
programs insert rather unfortunate:
--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No I didn't, I just forwarded it, Rashid Khalidi wrote it. There's been
some confusion here caused by just that, with people being credited for
things they only forwarded.
Regards
Keith
Phillip Wolfe
--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1683/
> In These Times
> November 12, 2004
>
> Fallujah 101
>
> A history lesson about the town we are currently
> destroying.
>
> By Rashid Khalidi
>
<snip>
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