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CITY-Leaders:
Please check out this page. It gives us guidelines on what information we can
use on our lists without violating intellectual property rights. They have a
four part test to see if what we're using would make someone angry enough to
sue us.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm#test
Now this other page is not only informative, it's actually funny. It's the
"Crash Course for Copyright". Drop down menus let you choose whether it is
"words, images, graphs" etc that you want to copy. Then there's another drop
down menu that says, "Sure it's the law but don't let that..... scrare, bore,
worry, disgust, bother, anger....you."
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
If a list member posts something to our lists that you feel may violate a
copyright issue, then it's your responsibility to inform them. Share these
links. Do a google on "fair use" or "Copyright" or "Intellectual property" and
see what you can learn to share with your list.
If you're the one who is violating copyright, then you put your list into
harm's way. As CITY-Leaders we can't set the precedent on the list of this
copyright infringement behavior.
Case in point: There was this Printies list, miniature cut outs, very busy,
tons of people on it. Problem was what was being sent through were obvioius
violations of "licensed" material. Nascar logos, Football and other sports
logos. It made some of the list members there right nervous. A ClayMate wrote
to me saying "I fear that there are copyright violations going on the printies
list." She unsubbed rather than be there.
Let me repeat that... she unsubbed rather than be there.
Will we loose list members because we are uninformed about copyright issues?
That's the second danger after getting sued by some commercial organization
that is pissed off at us.
I am sending this out on Special Notice because it is important for us to be
informed about such stuff. We don't want to be sued, we don't want to loose
list members who get nervous either.
Thanks,
xoxo
NJ |
