X-Message-Number: 22293
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Copyright on Alcor News

Every issue of Alcor News specifically says, right at the
top, that if anyone wishes to quote from it, they are welcome
to do so, PROVIDED they include the URL from which the news
was copied.

Rick Potvin has quoted a large chunk from the current issue
of Alcor News on his web site, and (you guessed it) provides
no attribution--no URL--to explain where the text came from.

Rick, if you really want to be a journalist, you should at
least learn the basics of copyright. Alcor controls the
copyright of Alcor News. This means that Alcor controls the
subsequent duplication and distribution of the text. Alcor
has chosen to be liberal in its policy, allowing anyone to
reprint anything, PROVIDED the person shows a little
professional courtesy by naming the source.

In the future, I would appreciate it if you could follow our
guidelines. Naturally, the guidelines apply only to an amount
of text that exceeds a short excerpt constituting "fair use"
(which you can read more about via your friendly
neightborhood search engine). However your recent reprint
certainly did exceed "fair use."

--Charles Platt

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