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Old Mister Crow
Join Date: May-2002
Location: Seattle, WA.
Country: USA
Posts: 3,197
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Come on, Ron. Andy quoted one paragraph. You're equating that to taking an entire essay.
Two words: Fair use.
From the US copyright office:
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The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; [etc.]
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More at http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Worth reading if these sorts of things tend to get at your scratch spot.
-Carl
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