X-Message-Number: 22293 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:36:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Subject: Copyright on Alcor News Every issue of Alcor News specifically says, right at the top, that if anyone wishes to quote from it, they are welcome to do so, PROVIDED they include the URL from which the news was copied. Rick Potvin has quoted a large chunk from the current issue of Alcor News on his web site, and (you guessed it) provides no attribution--no URL--to explain where the text came from. Rick, if you really want to be a journalist, you should at least learn the basics of copyright. Alcor controls the copyright of Alcor News. This means that Alcor controls the subsequent duplication and distribution of the text. Alcor has chosen to be liberal in its policy, allowing anyone to reprint anything, PROVIDED the person shows a little professional courtesy by naming the source. In the future, I would appreciate it if you could follow our guidelines. Naturally, the guidelines apply only to an amount of text that exceeds a short excerpt constituting "fair use" (which you can read more about via your friendly neightborhood search engine). However your recent reprint certainly did exceed "fair use." --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22293