Re: Notice of REMOVAL-- saving KF

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

On 16 Aug 1999, Cturley2 wrote:

> From: Eric  <chippys@earthlink.net>
>                   <habanero@delphi.com>
> we have this: << Yes, I believe it must (should) be locally defined. In the
> U.S. there is a whole chapter of the copyright law which exempts educational
> institutions from certain violations, IIRC.
> 
> And, I reply:  
> I agree with you completely on all of the above as you outlined it.  Certainly
> as the report was presented to the public (before it's removal) for it's
> educational, reference value and use only and not in any way presented for
> commercial use from the GS WorldView website, it should be and indeed is exempt
> from certain violations alledged, concerning its presentation to the public.

But those exemptions usually only apply to partial quotes, they don't
necessarily cover _completely_ copying something or someone else's work.

Quoting everything without permission risks a lawsuit.

Quoting specific parts of someones post very likely falls under the
protection of fair use, as in US Code 17, Chapter 1, section 107.

Also completey quoting someone without asking isn't polite, but
then Turley, what do you care about being polite.

Greg B.

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