RE: [tlug] [OT][WAY OT] Perhaps of intereste to Sci Fi Fans:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Glover
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 8:25 PM
> 
> It is my understanding that the default copyright, which is 
> automatically granted to creative works under US and Japanese 
> law (and others, one would imagine, but IANAL), is *all* 
> rights reserved, so you should not copy-and-paste anything 
> unless the copyright is clearly stated on the content, and 
> said copyright grants the right to reprint unconditionally.
> 
I wasn't thinking at the time.  My fault.
Copyright law does allow for short quotes and sitations.
I've been looking at APA writing rules lately because of
a class I took. ^^  I should have known better.

> 
> Again, the reason that TLUG needs to take a hard line on this 
> issue is that copyright is the foundation of Open Source and 
> Free Software. If we do not respect copyright, that pretty 
> much invalidates our raison d'etre, IMO.
> 

wakatta.  I agree, we have to be careful.
gomenne.

--
Ken