Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Excerpt

As copyrighted material is excerpted online, some owners would rather have clicks than credit.

Full article in the NYT

March 2, 2009 by Uncategorized 5

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  1. StephenK says:
    March 2, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Well
    This would impact us here.
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  2. Bibliofuture says:
    March 2, 2009 at 7:12 am

    LISNEWS and fair use
    LISNEWS use of articles falls very solidly on the side of fair use.

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    • StephenK says:
      March 2, 2009 at 8:08 am

      I am not a lawyer
      I am not a lawyer and do not play one on TV. While it can be contended that LISNews is solidly on the side of fair use, it can be said that sometimes our excerpts are confusing. I have been left pondering what the excerpts mean when it is hard to tell what the poster wrote and what was in the excerpt. There are HTML tags for that and flipping the radio button under “Input Format” can allow such to be used.
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      • Bibliofuture says:
        March 2, 2009 at 8:21 am

        Underlining etc
        So we should bold and strike out things to distinguish what we are posting?

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        • StephenK says:
          March 2, 2009 at 5:56 pm

          Nah
          I was thinking about BLOCKQUOTE tags. Drupal doesn’t allow them in the standard input format so you have to flip the bit over to “Full HTML”.
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