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Re: [GWL]: OK, I'm available


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>Good question, Andrew.  Folks do this all the time on the various 
>listservs I participate in.  I have also noticed that every newspaper 
>website and many other websites provide an option for the user to have the 
>article emailed to someone else.  I wonder if there is any difference 
>between having the website email the article and an individual emailing 
>the article?

Yes, the newspaper owns the copyright - I/we/you do not.  If they invite 
you to share the article, you have the right to do so. If no invitation, 
then no permission.  Whether "folks do this all the time" or not is 
irrelevant. We all speed in our cars too but that doesn't make it any more 
legal.


>  Looking at the LA Times site, for example, it appears that I could have 
> the website email articles to this listserv's address.  I suspect that 
> the email would then be propagated through the list just as other 
> messages are.   I could test that if everyone wouldn't mind...

I, quite frankly, would mind. Two reasons:

1) This is a recipe for maxing out the bandwidth on my system.  Clogging 
the electronic pipes so to speak.  I don't mind links because they don't 
take up bandwidth.  I do mind relentless sharing of total articles which 
someone finds interesting.  Simply send the link if its interesting.

2) I also have an "issue" (I believe that is the current buzzword);-) with 
breaking copyright rules.  I wouldn't like it if it happened to me and I 
suspect no writer on this list would like it if it were their article being 
spread about without payment.

So, while the LA times might invite you to send an article to your friends 
and relatives and thus make it legal to do so, I don't want it because of 
reason #1.  If it is not legal to do so, then I don't want it because of 
reason #2.

>Anyone else have any suggestions about how we can email each other 
>articles in situations like the NY Times where you cannot provide a direct 
>link to the article?

Let me repeat myself (my kids say I do it all the time).  The link *is* a 
direct link if you have registered to use the service. If a person wants to 
avoid registering to obtain copyright information then imho that person 
doesn't really want/need that information. The NYT has the right to 
distribute content in any way it sees fit if it owns that 
copyright.  Sending links is the easiest way to send information around.

Perhaps I should have included more information with the link paraphrasing 
the content. That would have made it easier to make a decision about using 
the link or not (I will in the future) however, sending the actual article 
is still copyright violation.

Doug

Douglas Green,
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