On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:17:59 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
As I explained in another post, most of the articles which OWN introduce now are *not clearly permitted* to reprint, republish and modify. In particular, on most of the corporations' site, they state "All rights reserved." Although I'm not an expert in this area either, as far as I understand, we can't *reprint* articles without permissions by copyright owners.
I can agree, that 99.99% we won't be charged with violation of copyright, because most of the authors want their works to be read by as many readers as possible. But this doesn't mean we are legitimate.
On the other hand, most of the copyright laws contain special exemptions, which says, *appropriate* citations are permitted without copyright owners consent. But what are considered the *legitimate* and *appropriate* citations depends on which country's copyright law and guidelines we should refer to.
I see, I had understood you to be asking about the copyrights on OWN's articles, not on the articles being used in OWN.
I should caveat that I'm not a lawyer, It might be worthwhile to discuss this with someone with actual legal background in international copyright issues than to discuss within the community.
It probably depends on whether OWN reproduces articles in their entirety or uses a short excerpt and then a link to the original article.
Another option would be simply to ask each author for permission before publication in OWN. If you receive express written permission to include a specific third party article in OWN, then you should be in the clear. You might also be able to get blanket permission to use articles from specific sites.
Jim Hi From my perspective as part of the Forum team I like the idea that just a synopsis is in the News Letter and then the reader can click through to the forums to read the whole item (Some threads can be novels in
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Jim Henderson <hendersj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: their own right...). It raises awareness of the Forum per se as well as keeping up the hit counter which is always good when the question is asked about forum usage. From my perspective as an openSUSE Forum contributor, I like the idea that information I post or a howto remains in the forum. I don't like the idea that an article for a howto may end up on a third party site whether or not it's attributed to myself. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.27-0.2-default up 11 days 12:19, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.08, 0.02 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.36 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org