Short quotes are probably not, on the whole, a major issue, as they
don't seem to be in most other forms of media. (I could see problems
in individual cases, but barring that, I think our policy on them is
probably adequate on the whole.) Media is another story, though;
outside of the internet (in which image copyvio is rampant), most use
of media is much more constrained on this issue, and we should feel
similarly constrained, I think.
FF
On 2/9/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 09/02/06, Tony Sidaway
<f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Like this is news?
It's not news, but it's rather nice to be able to point and say "Look,
our *lawyer* says we should be doing this!"
If you look at the whole thread, it's not really a legal opinion;
all he's saying is that the issue of copyright should be taken
seriously, which is a long ways from saying whether we're allowed
to have even short quotes of copyrighted text in articles.
(We don't even have a way to identify copyrighted quotes
that might need to be scrubbed out.)
Stan
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