by GoldenCrescentstone
Internet sites and blogs are cracking down more and more on copyright. It used to be that you could take a snippit from a blog or something from the Internet and re-post it as long as you gave credit to the writer along with a link to the entire article, something the bully blogger never does when he copies from my blog even though I have asked him to do so. If you were using it for commercial purposes, it was forbidden--that was stealing. Some photos were fair game as well.
I even had the PBPost tell me that my graphic using KKK figures to represent three city commissioners hauling off Commissioner Ryan Maier to be hung was in the public realm. The Post must have checked with their lawyers as it soon came off their video. They used it without my permission and they are a commercial enterprise.
My favorite Internet site has now incorporated a copyright policy that will charge for certain uses. Even e-mailing the article to more than 5 recipients will cost you at this unnamed site. Their don'ts that appeared in a pop-up are:
Copyright Don'ts
- Don't use your browser to copy and paste copyrighted content for commercial purposes. In most cases it is illegal.
- Don't accept files and documents of copyrighted content from others who have not obtained permission to send you the content.
- Don't believe that using copyrighted content without permission does not hurt the livelihoods of the people who create content. Piracy costs creators and their publishers billions of dollars each year.
- Don't buy the "I am using it for the public good" argument. That is a weak justification for infringement and sends the wrong message to students and employees.
- Don't infringe copyrighted content. Getting caught is expensive and embarrassing.
- Don't think copyright is capricious and unenforceable. The laws and principles are clear and they exist to protect content consumers as well as creators.
I am not entirely sure where we legally stand if we are just using snippits for personal use with no monetary gain as a result.
4 comments:
Blackman believes he's entitled. Now we learn he's paid by Hudson Holdings.
What will Wes do if he can't copy your blog everyday ? Fall down and break his noodle?
Wes takes big chunks of comments off your blog like you wrote them personally. He also takes some original photos. Why doesn't he do the right thing?
@4:06...LOL. I can't remember when he ever did the right thing. Perhaps if I search my memory bank I will come up with something. Oh, that's right--he just resigned from the HRPB. Way to go, Wes.
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