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To: Boca_PETE who wrote (7707)8/12/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Kirk ©  Read Replies (1) of 15132
 
Thanks Pete.

My understanding of the law is that your summary is correct. I have been telling my "helpers" at our site to NOT cut n paste directly from one site to ours as it is a violation of copyright laws. We try to encourage people to ONLY cut n paste "excerpts" as this is legal in writing a review of an article and then we try to have a link back to the original source to read the full article. IF done right, it actually is an advertisement for the source site and is probably appreciated.

I am not sure how SI feels about posting a part of a large discussion thread from here to my site but I know that I always post a link back here and give credit so many readers now follow this site via the free path... change talk to www in the link for any post and it goes into the free source. I think they would consider it advertising and good as many of my readers have started to read SI due to my cross posting and links.

It bothers me here that SI doesn't seem to bother warning all the people about cutting n pasting articles and not even bothering with pasting a link back to the original source. I see many direct cut n pastes here from Bloomberg and Reuters that I would not (or I try not to these days) copy directly to my site.

Of course, you are allowed to read material and then give your interpretation of said material in your own words. Someone could do that with newsletters but we have agreed that is not a practice we encourage. The only time you are not allowed to disclose information you learned from reading something or talking to someone is when you sign a condifential nondisclosure agreement. I've been on both sides of those.... but not in this business. 8)

I'd feel better here if we didn't have so much direct cut n paste in this group....it would be like scanning a newsletter and posting the gif on the net... not nice AND not legal by copyright law!

_at least by my understanding of the law. I do not play an attorney in real life so this is not to be taken as legal advice but just my opinion.... now I feel safe to climb a laddder.

It WILL be interesting to see how all this works out.

Are you aware that Yahoo! now blocks links to one of my favorite sites? quotes.freerealtime.com
Tough to be in a Yahoo! discussion forum and want to link back to something writen there... Yahoo! is getting much abuse over this.

Kirk out
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