Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!haste+ From: haste+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dani Zweig) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: copyrights Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 90 01:21:01 GMT Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 Gilly Rosenthol: >...would make a great tall tale, but it's copyrighted. I'd say that the operative question, setting aside the letter of the law, is whether you're hurting the author. If what you want to post is a good story from a good book, you are probably benefiting the author by alerting people to the existence of that book. My own tendency is to be moderately sloppy about copyrights. If you want to be more cautious or conscientious, you can always *write* to the author and ask permission. --Dani