From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 22:51:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F2237B428 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0205.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.205] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16F8f3-0000DT-00; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:51:05 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1AF2DD.D26BFFEB@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:51:09 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boston Globe Article (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > I must mention that individual articles for newspapers (and from > magazines) do have value by themselves. The "big enchilada" from a payoff perspective is "First rights", e.g. "First North American Publishing rights". > Often, articles (including newspapers) are written by freelancers that > retain the rights to republish -- and they do. So by even using one > article and republishing, you could be dimishing the value of that one > single article. (Many freelancers' entire livelihood is based on trying to > republish and republish the same articles again and again.) Even with your intransigent attitude, you have to admit that the FreeBSD-chat mailing list is the moral equivalent of a small circulation free home buyer's home buyer's guide. I could probably pay "damages" with the coins in my pocket (and probably already did, when I purchased a copy of the paper because I knew it had the article in it). > Personally, I'd find > it unethical and illegal if someone copied verbatim one of my website's > articles and republished into a wide public forum without permission. I > can assume that the other BSD media websites editors (and professional > freelancers) wouldn't like their articles republished (without > permission), since it may stop traffic to their site and lessens the value > of the article that could have been sold elsewhere (like in some print > media). Now weigh pursuing legal action, against pissing off ~5000 people, some of whom are probably willing to cancel their Boston Globe or affiliated media subscriptions over what was an obvious attempt at "fair use" of the article in a forum which would not have seen it otherwise, and which can be documented to have sold a number of papers through said exposure. P.S.: I am still waiting for the correction over who coined the term "Open Source". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message