Posted by alexandra_k on July 23, 2005, at 18:32:13
In reply to Re: question to Dr. Bob about other boards research? » alexandra_k, posted by Jen Star on July 23, 2005, at 17:30:22
Yeah, we retain copyright to our own posts.
But my understanding is that Dr Bob gets to hold copyright to them too.
I would guess that means that 'fair use' doesn't apply.
'Fair use' is about how much of a thread, or how much of someones post you are allowed to use.
It gets a little ambiguous here... Copyright restrictions mean that... I think this is roughly correct... You can't reproduce more than 10% of a book or more than however many chapters... Or whatever. I can't really remember. But the point is that 'fair use' places restrictions depending on how you make the analogy between threads / posts and books / chapters / articles. If you use a whole thread in a publication that might be like using a whole chapter of someones book - which might be a bit on the hefty side with respect to the amount of information you are allowed to reproduce.If Dr Bob has copyright then he doesn't have to worry about how much from a thread / post he can use in one article / chapter / whatever.
Thats why I'm careful to put work I have done over on writing. Don't mind if people make fair use of it - but wouldn't want them reproducing too much of a chunk of it at a time.
But my understanding could be way off...
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