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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:06:01 +0000
From: Tim Sheppard
Subject: Re: Rushdie Article



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At 18:35 04/01/2003 -0500, Cilla Raughley wrote:
>>Our goal on this list is to be respectful of other's intellectual property.>
>
>A worthy goal, but I don't think it applies to this case. The article may be
>found online in today's edition of The Guardian for anyone to read.

In addition to this, quite a few newspapers actively encourage their
articles to be emailed, forwarded etc., even providing on-screen buttons to
automatically do that. They only ask that the copyright notice be kept
intact. Newspaper articles are ephemeral and the newspapers recognise that
it's in their own interests to circulate their articles, and that that is
exactly what people do anyway with paper versions when they pass the paper
on or give clippings to friends.

I agree that it's a good rule to avoid posting copyright material on the
list without permission, but remember that we all own the copyright to
every post we make - everything on this list is copyright, but we each
tacitly grant permission to the server to circulate it to members. And so
do many of the newspapers.

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Tim Sheppard England story@timsheppard.co.uk
Storyteller & Trainer
see The Storytelling FAQ at http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story
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