\n[I feel fairly confident on number 4 as well, as the idea
\n that any supposed readers of my blog would refrain from purchasing the
\n original sources of any of my stories after reading the Dowbrigade is,
\n frankly, ludicrous.]<\/p>\n Now, returning to number 2, please check out this hypothetical concerning
\n linking to or independently posting (copying) copyright material of various
\n "natures."<\/p>\n Q: What would be the hypothetical liability of an innocent (until proven
\n guilty) academic blogger who appropriated the following materials:<\/p>\n [Before going any further with these examples let me categorically state
\n for the record that I have never personally engaged in any of the activities
\n described therein and that the specific instances are wholly fictitious
\n and made up]<\/p>\n A: Copying the lead paragraph of a newspaper article from a public access
\n site and posting it with a sentence or two of commentary and a link to
\n the complete article.<\/p>\n B: Copying significant portions, with commentary, of a subscription-based
\n internet publication like the New York Times. (Does it make a difference
\n if I grab the article off of their RSS feed? Doesn’t its presence on the
\n RSS feed indicate they WANT people to repost?)<\/p>\n C: Copying and linking to an article in a for-pay subscription publication
\n like the Chronicle of Higher Ed, which I have accessed through Lexis-Nexis,
\n to which I have access through my University’s site license.<\/p>\n D: Copying a photo from a news source like MSNBC. Copying a photo from
\n Google image search. (Does it make a difference if I copy the Google thumbnail
\n -which is often just the right size- and not the "original" image in situ?)<\/p>\n E: Publicly available documents like Press Releases, court records or financial
\n filings.<\/p>\n I would really be interested in what people who know more about this stuff
\n than I do think about these cases. Of course, it’s probably already too
\n late for me. Actually, I am waiting for the RIAA to come break my door
\n down. I figure I owe them a little over $1 Billion dollars and they could
\n lock me up for 20,000 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last summer I had a law student named Sosumi. Really. This summer I have again been spending 4 hours a day in a basement room with a dozen lawyers, an obligation which has but three more days to run and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-screeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |