Posted by LarryS on July 19, 2001, at 0:39:13
Robert Hsuing,
Why do you continue to allow people to post copyrighted articles on your site? Because nobody will notice? Because you probably won't get caught? Becaue everybody else is doing it?http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010714/msgs/70770.html
(Healing Haze - an article plagiarized here from Scientific American)Do you think people will respect the boundaries you attempt to establish at your site when you don't respect the boundaries of society at large?
It would be easy to stop this practice of posting plagiarized articles. Advise contributors that it is illegal to post copyrighted material and ask them instead to post links to the publishers web site if they want to refer to an article. If people want to mention the content of an article here, they could summarize or paraphrase an ariticle here and use excerpts as allowed under fair use terms of copyright law.
The easy way to limit the posting of copyrighted material here would be to delete it when it appears. This would also protect you and your site from copyright violation lawsuits and possible criminal prosecution.
poster:LarryS
thread:1598
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