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Date Posted: 16:03:24 03/28/04 Sun
Author: Mohamed
Subject: Re: Myths about Copyright
In reply to: Jessica Patterson 's message, "Re: Myths about Copyright" on 15:48:50 03/25/04 Thu

Jessica,

I completely agree with you. A great example of this would be when writing a college paper how we (students) use other people's work. You can either cite them (and quote word-for-word from the original text), or you can paraphrase which would fall under fair use. In academia however, an individual must still give credit to the original creator of the work even when paraphrasing. This can be done simply by saying "according to mr. x".
I think the war on copyright on-going and there is no end in sight. The internet has definitely contributed to the availability of work that would have otherwise been inaccessible to most people.

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>I would like to talk about the myth that says: "My
>posting was just fair use". Fair Use was added to
>allow things such as commentary, parody, news
>reporting, research and education about copyrighted
>works without the permission of the author. "Facts
>and ideas can't be copyrighted, but their expression
>and structure can. You can always write the facts in
>your own words". Fair Use does not mean you can use
>someone else's entire work, but you can refer to it in
>the above ways.

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Re: Myths about Copyright -- John Murray, 20:50:28 03/28/04 Sun
- Re: Myths about Copyright -- James Wigington, 18:14:09 03/29/04 Mon
Re: Myths about Copyright -- Andrew McIntyre, 12:37:44 03/30/04 Tue