Digital BW, The Print

It seems to me that Antonis and Martin should have as conservative a 
policy as necessary to keep them from having to think/worry about 
this. My chief concern is that it not add to their administrative 
load. And my personal preference is for shorter posts with more 
references and links.

Sam               samcc@...


>Tim, Doug, Austin,
>
>Thank you for all the feedback. Especially Austin with all the "chapter and
>verse." I think we will just leave it as is. It would seem that posting it
>to the forum is clearly within fair use but the NYT takes exception to it
>appearing without their copyright notice which seems fair enough although I
>think clearly identifying them as the source would be good enough. Their
>dislike of mass e-mailing I can't do anything about since those all went out
>within minutes after the post went up.
>
>Besides, the more murky the legal waters get the less obliged I feel to sort
>it out. My original concern came out of the recent issue over the Binbook(?)
>copying of this group's posts without permission. I did not wish to be
>hypocritical and do the same thing we had objected to their doing. Perhaps
>newspaper articles fall into a different category or the fact that Binbook
>was a for-profit operation.
>
>Perhaps as a guideline for the group for similar situations in the future we
>should stick the copyright notice at the end of the text in question.
>Further thoughts and opinion are welcome!
>
>Martin Wesley
>http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html