22 July 2010

Remember Your Fair Use Laws

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that Conservative News "linking" websites are being sued over copyright infringement.

Just a MAJOR reminder to all bloggers and people out there, make sure that you ONLY excerpt, link, and give credit where it is truly due.

Full Story Here.

2 comments:

  1. That's fine advice, but it should also be remembered that you can still be sued, because sometimes the lawsuit is used to intimidate people to settle out of court--even if what you are doing *is* Fair Use! The hope is that you wouldn't be able to challenge the newspaper.

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  2. Absolutely Alphy. The first thing any student learns in any law course is that anyone can be sued for anything at any time.

    I have since taken your advice to generate a legal disclaimer.

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