Comments on: BLOGGING AND FAIR USE http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_and_fair_use/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:58:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bryan http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_and_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-5847 Bryan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3223#comment-5847 There are a few different camps here. One camp doesn't believe anything should be free. Another explains away all their copyright violations through "fair use" (and I'm talking sites that all they do is print copyrighted materials). You are probably the final group, who quotes things occasionally thinking they are "fair use," even though it's probably a violation. As for professors, even we are not immune from copyright violation for "required readings" if we use them in a class pack or something. There are a few different camps here. One camp doesn't believe anything should be free. Another explains away all their copyright violations through "fair use" (and I'm talking sites that all they do is print copyrighted materials). You are probably the final group, who quotes things occasionally thinking they are "fair use," even though it's probably a violation.

As for professors, even we are not immune from copyright violation for "required readings" if we use them in a class pack or something.

]]> By: O. F. Jay http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_and_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-5848 O. F. Jay Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3223#comment-5848 Hey, who knows? Maybe the NYT, Big Media, and Limbaugh and his ilk can turn the entire blogosophere into an elephant graveyard of farewell addresses by bloggers slapped with multiple copyright-violation lawsuits. Would giving out your login to registered sites (of course, only for non-premium content) be construed as aiding the willfull circumvention of digital security? Who knows, maybe you'd be slapped with a DMCA lawsuit. Chill winds, Good Professor. Chill winds. Hey, who knows? Maybe the NYT, Big Media, and Limbaugh and his ilk can turn the entire blogosophere into an elephant graveyard of farewell addresses by bloggers slapped with multiple copyright-violation lawsuits.

Would giving out your login to registered sites (of course, only for non-premium content) be construed as aiding the willfull circumvention of digital security? Who knows, maybe you'd be slapped with a DMCA lawsuit. Chill winds, Good Professor. Chill winds.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_and_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-5849 Bryan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3223#comment-5849 ever notice how it's only Limbaugh who has an "ilk"? :-D I think it would be nice to have an "ilk". Maybe I should get one. ever notice how it's only Limbaugh who has an "ilk"? :-D I think it would be nice to have an "ilk". Maybe I should get one.

]]> By: Paul http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_and_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-5850 Paul Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3223#comment-5850 "Fair Use" is what ever Sandra Day O'Connor say it is on any given Tuesday. But having said that, the people that are posting paid material in totality are OBVIOUSLY not protected by fair use. From the way my IP lawyer describes it, I would say 2/3'rds of what I see on blogs is legit. But enforcement is a whole new issue. Paul Come to think of it, posting things from free sites that make you register is also no good. The lawyers will make the case that your email address amounts to "other considerations." --- "Fair Use" is what ever Sandra Day O'Connor say it is on any given Tuesday.

But having said that, the people that are posting paid material in totality are OBVIOUSLY not protected by fair use. From the way my IP lawyer describes it, I would say 2/3'rds of what I see on blogs is legit.

But enforcement is a whole new issue.

Paul

Come to think of it, posting things from free sites that make you register is also no good. The lawyers will make the case that your email address amounts to "other considerations."

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