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Comment on Why Stop At Universities? by Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:50:17 +0000

Try finding the original author for permission of printed material….most of the time you won’t even be able to get into contact with the original publisher, let alone the author…..I’m not going to spend hundreds of hours beating my head up against an impenatrable wall of publishing houses….simply post the article in an unabridged form, state the original author, and it should all be OK….

Copyright exists to protect big business….every one else is confronted with a legal minefield….why should we bother? If the intention is to simply distribute the information and the source is qouted, nobody loses out in the end….I have already paid for my magazine, and the author has already been paid for publishing the article, so who really owns the words?….nobody….

Comment on Embarrassment by Fair Use by Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:39:03 +0000

What if you cannot trace the owner of copyrighted material, even though the publication you are drawing from is out of print?

Surely, if you post a SOURCE and then place the work up for all to see in an unabridged form, on w ebsite that is not for profit, surely then you are not treading on anyone’s toes?

I would much rather post something whole and unabridged, stating my source, than simply a rehash of someone elses work passed of as my own….and yet, if I have no direct permission…I am STILL infringeing the law…

Madness really……i post articles that are over theirty years old, from publications that are out of print. I’m not plagiarizing anything, and the original author cannot be tracked down in a million years…..the website is not making money, so whats the harm?

Seems to me that copyright is WAY out of date to the needs of the internet…it’s supposed to be an “information superhighway”, but when we get hit with “trafic tickets” like that, it makes you wonder whether copyright isn’t just a giant excuse for RESTRICTING information, rather than allowing it’s distribution…

If you can’t track down the original author, is iy not OK sinply to post his/her name as the original author, rather than rehashing the research work of others and calling it your own…

I don’t like plagiarism…..but copyright is a frustrating exercise in legal nothingness…for the benefit of the legal profession….if your intentions are honest and non-profit…whats the harm?