Please don't C&P entire articles
Note: I deleted a thread that was a C&P of a Rivals article. I don't have a problem with people relating the gist of something, or quoting a small bit w/ a link, but wholesale copying is a no-go for reasons pragmatic (don't want to get sued) and otherwise (it is poor netiquette).
December 30th, 2008 at 5:18 PM ^
my scolding of the cut and paster, mixed in with some shaky law student analysis of the Fair Use Doctrine and opinion that these issues should be closely monitored resulted in this sticky thread. I will now make myself Honorary Fake Counsel to mgoblog.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:51 PM ^
People definitely shouldn't be cutting and pasting whole articles here. The gist of them with a link, however, is ok. News itself is not copyrightable. The presentation of the news, i.e. the author's relaying of that news via an article, is.
Fair use is almost never a successful defense in practice.
The preceding is not legal advice nor constitutes something that you should rely upon as legal advice.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:13 PM ^
What if you ran the article through a translator into a language like Russian, then retranslated it back into English. That would be great.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:21 PM ^
anyone want to inform what the gist of it was? Please?
December 30th, 2008 at 5:31 PM ^
recruiting stuff, i think...no real bombshellish
December 30th, 2008 at 6:33 PM ^
What about in the case of freep/Detroit News garbage? that is unnecessarily negative? I hate giving them page views to read it but I still want to see what they have to say and I'm sure others feel the same way.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:54 PM ^
Let Freep die. Who cares about their "opinions"? This is dieing news source for a reason - their 'news' is unbalanced and skewed.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:32 PM ^
we are all here reading a source of unbiased and skewed news and enjoy it quite a bit. I know you're saying the freep should be objective and mgoblog doesn't pretend to, but the point of discussion on a blog such as this IMO is to sometimes respond to "biased" reports for the sake of our discussion and enjoyment.
Mea culpa as it was I that c and p'd that thread. It was approx half the article and I was running out the door.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:27 PM ^
I too have felt the wrath of Brian (but not for the C & P sin).
It cut me deeply. Words can't begin to describe...
Anyone else have a Scarlet letter?
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 PM ^
I sense another sticky coming.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:10 PM ^
related to the bust-chummed piranha pool some of us were swimming in...?