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  •  Fair Use (none / 0)

    Yes.  The author is given direct credit and the article is quoted for news/commentary.  If it was quoted without credit, I'd have a real problem.

    My blog is mostly just .mht stores of relevant (to me, anyway) articles, and my attorney, and the attorneys at the BBC, MSNBC and CNN (among others) agree that my use constitutes 'fair use'.  I have never been sued; I just had them contacted in advance of my starting the blog.

    Whole article/part of the article/whatever.

    What's the big deal as long as the author is credited?  I would like to have seen a link to the author's article, also, but that's just me.

    Don't look now, but....

    by ResistanceIsFutile on Mon Sep 05, 2005 at 05:20:14 PM PDT

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    •  This Has Been Hashed Out (none / 0)

      on this site and in courts a number of times, and I am surprised you get away with it, although nothing surprises me.  If reproducing a published article elsewhere from where it is originally produced doesn't hurt its marketability (and for heaven's sake, it is behind a 30 second ad), then I have no idea what does.  If a 100% copy doesn't trigger paragraph 3, then what does?

      It doesn't matter.  I have very little respect for diarists that put this little effort into their "literary," or "journalistic" product.

      Stop rewarding bad behavior.

      by FLDemJax on Mon Sep 05, 2005 at 05:26:20 PM PDT

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