Re: Copyright

[P3D Alexa R.W. Smith <arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Erlys
> The authors whose revenues are dependent on those laws as the only 
> protection for receiving income for their labors do not think it rediculous 
> to have them.  A citation or reference to a work is not a copyright 
> infringement.  A copying and republication of the whole or any significant 
> part thereof DEFINATELY IS!  Even a nonprofit group is forbidden to copy a 
> work and give it away without having received writtejn permission first.
> 
> If the copyright on the work is still in force then what george is doing is 
> WRONG and illegal.
> 
> In the hopes of educating nonauthors,
> Mark

As an artist and author I have to agree with Mark.  If you want to use anything 
substantial (i.e. not a citation only) from material, you should get permission.
I think it's also a sign of respect to the person who originally printed the 
material even though you are right George that realistically no one is probably 
going to hunt you down for something that old and if you are printing it 
yourself.  At the Univ. where I work, we can't send anything copyrighted to any 
of the local copy services for duplicating now unless we have gotten copyright 
permission.  (I believe this is because Kinko's was sued at one point for 
printing student packets of articles and selling them).  

Alexa

Alexa Smith
email: arws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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