I’m not sure\u00a0when the changes were made, but the oldest piece<\/a> linked to today’s front page, dated Nov. 14th, does have the corrected version.\u00a0\u00a0 (I checked only\u00a0one article<\/a>, dated Oct. 19, 2006, to\u00a0see if older\u00a0NCG<\/em> pieces\u00a0had also been amended.\u00a0 That article, which was a verbatim copy of a NYS court press release<\/a>,\u00a0continues to say\u00a0“This article is copyright protected and Fair Use is not applicable.”)\u00a0 This result —\u00a0ending the incorrect Fair Use Disclaimer — was my modest goal when I first approached the publisher of NCG<\/em> and raised the topic at this weblog.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m thankful the misleading statement about the Fair Use doctrine is gone, as it did a disservice to readers of the Gazette<\/em>.\u00a0 I’m also hopeful that my mentioning this good outcome won’t lead to its reversal, as happened<\/a>\u00a0after only one day last month.\u00a0\u00a0 We should applaud The North Country Gazette<\/em> for changing its policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Google News Alert for “pro se” brought me to June Maxam’s North Country Gazette this morning — my first stop there since questioning, in a series of postings last\u00a0month,\u00a0NCG‘s claim that “Fair Use is not applicable” to the copyrighted material appearing at that site.\u00a0\u00a0The Nov. 21st\u00a0NCG‘s article is about Florida Judge Cliff Barnes, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"announcerR\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/08\/announcerS.gif\")
\u00a0What is <\/em>worth noting, to update our readers and the record, is the current copyright notice at the end of the North Country Gazette<\/em> article.\u00a0 \u00a0The broad claim of rights now ends with the words “This article is copyright protected” and no longer\u00a0has the erroneous statement “Fair Use is not applicable.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0In addition, the\u00a0Home Page Sidebar no longer contains the wrongheaded prohibition against all reproduction “in accordance with Fair Use.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n