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How many of you know that when you quote a news source you have a few copyright laws you have to follow?

It's something along the lines of you can only use a blurb from the news source and you must link to the rest of the news. News sites like google, yahoo, etc do it this way, but it always seems GFY doesn't.. It's a copyright violation for the poster and Lenz.

As an example thread of what not to do: http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=493984

As an example of how to link news:
"As a strengthening Hurricane Emily hurtled toward northeastern Mexico on Tuesday, residents and officials alike scrambled to avoid a repeat of the hurricane" http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3273790

Does anyone even care?

I always post the source when I quote news

dude... there's cats using famous people's likeness in their banners without permission... u think they give a shit about this? :1orglaugh - but u have a point & we all should care :2 cents:




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Fuck here come the news police.
Do they come after the board owner or the poster?

You are correct, tons of copyright bs going on.. Famous people, copyrighted music, logos, etc.. Tons of it.. I guess the webmasters just don't care..

Unless it happens to them.

damn skippy.... thats 1 fucked the about the net though.... it has definitely increased the instances of copyright violations 10 fold :disgust



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Isn't that its okay for as long as you acknowledge the source?

i dont think they really care. news spread naturally.

TheDoc - I totally disagree with you as these types of postings are covered under the "fair-use" doctrine and laws. These have been litigated many times in courts and since GFY falls under the non-commercial use of the articles and used for comment/discussion they could never be liable in my opinion - and my opinion is only based on EFFs faqs about the fair use of copyrighted materials since they follow these types of cases constantly.
http://www.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php

Fair uses with a news article only covers part of the article. If you publish the full article that is a copyright violation. Part 3/C covers that.

Father?

Any person in N.America (also, I am going assume any Englishperson) should know, so long as they were paying attention in English class.

Speaking of the EFF... http://tor.eff.org/ is the future