Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:51:09 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boston Globe Article (fwd) Message-ID: <3C1AF2DD.D26BFFEB@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112141805030.258-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > I must mention that individual articles for newspapers (and from > magazines) do have value by themselves. The "big enchilada" from a payoff perspective is "First rights", e.g. "First North American Publishing rights". > Often, articles (including newspapers) are written by freelancers that > retain the rights to republish -- and they do. So by even using one > article and republishing, you could be dimishing the value of that one > single article. (Many freelancers' entire livelihood is based on trying to > republish and republish the same articles again and again.) Even with your intransigent attitude, you have to admit that the FreeBSD-chat mailing list is the moral equivalent of a small circulation free home buyer's home buyer's guide. I could probably pay "damages" with the coins in my pocket (and probably already did, when I purchased a copy of the paper because I knew it had the article in it). > Personally, I'd find > it unethical and illegal if someone copied verbatim one of my website's > articles and republished into a wide public forum without permission. I > can assume that the other BSD media websites editors (and professional > freelancers) wouldn't like their articles republished (without > permission), since it may stop traffic to their site and lessens the value > of the article that could have been sold elsewhere (like in some print > media). Now weigh pursuing legal action, against pissing off ~5000 people, some of whom are probably willing to cancel their Boston Globe or affiliated media subscriptions over what was an obvious attempt at "fair use" of the article in a forum which would not have seen it otherwise, and which can be documented to have sold a number of papers through said exposure. P.S.: I am still waiting for the correction over who coined the term "Open Source". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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