Posted on 02/01/2008 3:07:03 PM PST by Jim Robinson
We received a copyright infringement notice today from Forbes.com. They requested that we either remove a thread that contained a full text posting of one of their articles or reduce it to a brief one paragraph excerpt with a link back to their source article. We have complied with their request and have added Forbes.com to the excerpt and link only list.
My understanding of fair use is that we can quote small amounts of copyrighted works for critiquing and discussion purposes as long as we're not adversely impacting the publisher's market for his works.
Our excerpt and link list is growing (click link above) and I'm afraid it's just a matter of time until we're going to have to require excerpting on all posts.
Please comply with our source publishers' copyright requests by excerpting your article posts where required and linking back to the source sites. Please keep the excerpts brief and do not continue the excerpted article in the comments or reply sections.
Thank you all very much.
Jim Robinson
Could you also post the list of sites that FR itself has decided are not welcome here? I’m aware of LP and, for some reason, Americans for Legal Immigration, as well as racist sites like Stormfront. But a full list of those would be helpful.
I canm understand link-and-3excerpt. I don’t like it much, but I understnad it. Even s aimple title and link I understand, although I think it’s ridiculously restrictive.
What I don’t understand is why a site would not even allow itself to be linked from here. Wouldn’t not being allowed even as a link reduce the traffic to their site?
yeah yeah...thats, J i m R o b i n s o n...we understand and won’t do any write in stuff...????...any middle initial Jim?
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