Re: Notice of REMOVAL-- saving KF

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Rubywand wrote:

>      Delphi's forums can be good places to chat and exchange information. However, they
> are public and statements made there may legitimately be taken as public statements.

Yes, they are public statements, however, they are copyrighted.

> Someone who posts a message to such a forum has no business expecting to exclude
> his/her statements from reports produced by any specific individual. In the news biz,
> you deliver the news.

That all depends...if you quote a whole message verbatim, that is a copyright
violation.  If you just quote a few specific parts of a message, than can be
considered fair use.

But all in all, the accepted practice is to ask permission before using
someone's posting.  This is what Ryan Suenaga does with The Lamp.
Although he acquired blanket permissions from a lot of people I imagine.

Greg B.

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