Re: oh dear what have I gotten myself in to!

In a message dated 7/6/02 9:54:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com writes:

<< 
 Before you post anybody's article on a website or mailing list such as this 
 one, let me suggest you ensure that you have the author's permission to do 
 so.  Copyright violation is a serious issue to writer's and posting without 
 permission is indeed a violation of copyright. >>


This article appeared on several AOL gardening areas,including AOL's coverage 
of the NYTimes features.  There is no caution regarding the pasting of the 
article elsewhere.  While Mr. Green is an author and should properly be 
concerned with the internet publication of privately his copyrighted 
materials, this article was not privately copyrighted.  Anyone on AOL could 
have seen it in a truncated version easily all over the web.  One person had 
it all together and that was easier than posting bits and pieces.  If you 
write to me privately,  I have Mr. Druse's address and can put you in touch 
with him.  I am absolutely postive he would be delighted to be seen and known 
by gardeners.  He is a writer intending to sell books and and has two very 
good books on market.  One is the "Collector's Garden" and the other is 
"Making More Plants" (on propagation).  He gardens in New Jersey and opens 
his garden for tours from time to time. This article could only serve to make 
him better known and assist in the sale of his books.  He also has some books 
on native plants that I have not found as useful.  He is a very gentle man 
and interested in outreach to gardeners.

Newspaper articles are generally agreed to be public infomation and can be 
found in the research facilities of any library.  We are fortunate, at least 
I think I am - must be age- to have the web at our disposal.  Saves many 
trips to the library.  A trip to the library could have netted this article 
in twenty different places.

There maybe legalities attached to pieces of writing but this piece was 
circulated worldwide on AOL via the web and it's association with the 
NYTimes.  The NYTimes is also circulated worldwide. I bought a copy of it in 
Anactica last January.  AOL prints most of the feature articles to AOL 
members.  If you are not on this server you may not know this.  If  you are 
on other servers you may have to register for articles or if in Canada you 
may have to pay for them.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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