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>Recently I’ve noticed several netpeople extensively quoting articles
>from newspapers, such as USA Today. As a full-time freelance writer
>(and a USA Today stringer), I have mixed feelings about this. On the
>one hand, it’s flattering. Then again, it’s a violation of copyrights.
I don’t know if you are specifically referring to the HICNews that I edit. If
you are, you will notice on top the copyright for USAToday and the line under
that says "Reproduced with Permission." It took me three months to negotiate
this release.
However, in sci.med.aids which is a moderate newsgroup the moderators (I’m
one), specifically make sure that any article that quotes extensively from
another source, has received copyright release. Many publications freely give
this if asked. We also regularly reject articles quoted from UPI/AP etc that
have not secured copyright release.
David Dodell
one of the sci.med.aids moderators
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In article <16978.262DC…@stjhmc.fidonet.org>, ddod…@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) writes:
> I don’t know if you are specifically referring to the HICNews that I edit. If
> you are, you will notice on top the copyright for USAToday and the line under
> that says "Reproduced with Permission." It took me three months to negotiate
> this release.
Not to belabor the point, and since we’ve discussed this in e-mail, but
I have here a 3/1/90 letter of agreement signed by Dick Sproul, USA
Today Editorial Office Manager, which says "…you hold the copyrights
in your original work, including the right (after 24 hours from first
publication in USA Today) to publish it as you wish and to prepare other
material based on it."
Clearly, USA Today cannot give permission to reprint material for which
it no longer holds the copyrights.
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