[Seattle-editorial] copyrighted articles

[Sheri Herndon]

i have a conference call with eff folks tuesday and will check again, but here's what i remember.  it's probably somewhere archived as well:

if it's a repost and doesn't include the entire article but just 3 or 4 lines, a short paragraph, and then a link to the original, there shouldn't be a problem.

if it's the full text reposted, that is where people can get grumpy and can use copyright infringement.  that means you get a request to take it down.  

i think that is the simple version.  as i mentioned, i will check in with wendy from eff about this since she's the one who is also helping us with this diebold case and also the beach cities stuff.....

in terms of policy for seattle:

i would love to see a discussion about how we can highlight the "best" of the corporate press and separate them out into a kind of media critique section.  this would be where we could show to the public the kinds of media that are actually good in the corporate media.  it would end up educating people and as we know, chomsky uses the corporate media.  the economist, the financial times, etc.  you can cull from the corporate media and find good stuff.  i think this would be a valuable "service".  pablo from brasil and i had discussed this about a year ago.  and we wanted to try and implement something like this on global when we were talking about very similar issues - copyrighted articles, etc.

sheri

>there have been long discussions about this globally with ambiguous 
>conclusions.
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>i like the approach that the band negativland espouses
>http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html
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>I think that hiding posts that are straight copies of corporate media 
>sources has been the practice but that reposts of stuff from other 
>non-corporate but sometimes copyrighted sources has been unclear.
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>I would imagine that the EFF would probably say hide it.
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>sheri, jonathan do you guys have any specifics on this question.  what 
>are the legal precedents that are current?
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>-jason
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>Gentry Lange wrote:
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>>Reposts of news from copyright sources? We should have a immediate ban
>>policy unless it's a "highlight". As it opens the IMC to legal 
>problems.
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>>Gentry
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