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From: slzr@GTE.COM (Suzanne Sluizer)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Quoting from articles?
Message-ID: <7378@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 89 15:40:58 GMT
References: <16006@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <16006@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> slin@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Steven Philip Lin) writes:

>What is the legality of quoting from articles?  The people at the company 
>I work at are extremely interested in people's comments about their products.
>They would like to quote or perhaps paraphrase articles in their ads, reports,
>marketing, etc.  Is it legal to just extract articles without getting the
>consent of the author?  Or, must we consider posted articles to be
>published works with all rights reserved by the poster?


The following is offered with the obligatory "I'm not a lawyer.  If you
want good legal advice, what you're getting here is worth what you're
paying for it."  Keeping that in mind ...

As I understand it, all articles on USENET are considered copyrighted,
even if there is no explicit copyright notice.

In any event, using someone's work in an ad, marketing, etc., without
their consent is, at best, rude, and at worst, could involve your company
in a law suit.  Why don't you just ask the people involved, and show a
little common courtesy?


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