Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:30:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boston Globe Article (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112141805030.258-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <3C196B25.5A4FE70B@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The entire article was copied. > > > > "The greater the amount of copyrighted work used, the less likely that a > > court will characterize the use as fair. The use of an entire copyright > > work is almost never fair." (The AP Stylebook and Libel Manual, 1992.) > > The entire paper was not. I must mention that individual articles for newspapers (and from magazines) do have value by themselves. 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.) Frequently, the articles are purchased as part of a wire service -- they had value individually -- and the same article could be republished by other medium later. So again, a single article separate from one newspaper has value (and could lose its value if republished by others). And, newspapers often provide their articles back to wire services (or they run their own article service). An individual article has value. Using the BSD media as a perspective: the editors for each main website (including mine) do a lot of work soliciting for contributed articles, spend a lot of money for freelanced articles (over the past couple years, I have spent over $4,000 for BSD-related articles) and/or other fees, and spend a lot of time editing and publishing articles. 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). Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ p.s. I must mention when I started working at my website, my manager told me to use announcements from -announce mailing lists verbatim -- since he already did it at other sites and other editors from other sites also do that. I did copy announcements for about a year. Last year, I started asking the posters for permission before republishing their mailing list postings. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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