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Re: Don't steal things from other web sites
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Date: 
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 00:15:14 GMT
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In article <36bcccb4.6543857@lugnet.com>, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry
K) wrote:

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:38:50 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:

In lugnet.starwars, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
In lugnet.starwars, eric@nospam.thirteen.net (Lorbaat) writes:
I can't personally vouch for the veracity of these descriptions, but • I found
them on www.starwarz.com, one of the many sites that has feelers all • around for
any Star Wars news.  The person who wrote them claims to have seen • them at a
toy fair- well, the Olympia '99 Trade Fair in the UK, to be precise.  Look
around as I might, though, I couldn't find any photos...

+++Begin blatant stealing of Material+++

You said that you were blatantly stealing material from another website.
This is a violation of the Terms of Use for this Internet site.
Please review <http://www.lugnet.com/terms/> in detail.

Yikes!
Todd, this seems to be saying that no one could in any way quote any
information from any source without explicit permission (with a few
exceptions).


Copyright law includes the concept of "fair use" to cover this problem.
For example, one can quote a paragraph from a book in order to critique
it.  You can do this without permission of the copyright holder.  The
exact terms of "fair use" are rather vauge, but I can probably dig up some
"guidelines" and post them(1) if others are interested.

If my interpretation of the LUGNET policy is correct, then as long as the
quote is within "fair use" it can be posted to LUGNET (assuming the
absence of other issues such as privacy, etc).

Dave

(1) according to fair use, of course :)

--
reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com



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[I'm replying to Dave & Terry here at the same time, but following-up to Dave's message. I re-inserted some elements of Terry's message deleted by Dave to make the reply easier for me.] Dave Baum: (...) Right-o, yup. If it truly falls under Fair (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Yikes! Todd, this seems to be saying that no one could in any way quote any information from any source without explicit permission (with a few exceptions). I have seen many instances of people quoting news information that would, stricly (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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