I also posted this post on my quote blog at http://www.kunal.org/scoble .

Thanks for responding, and I’ve left you a few comments on your post.

Wanted to point out to my readers a few things:

a) I know you aren’t being malicious with your experimental quoteblog.

b) I also know Don Strickland isn’t being malicious

c) I’m just trying to point out a few best practices.

d) Hopefully a few tools will get developed that’ll help all of us follow best practices and still keep the workload to a minimum when we want to send people off to another site to read.

After stopping and reading your article, which unfortunately, I read after posting at Roberts blog, you have valid points.

One quick question, at a couple of the companies I worked for, they had a clipping service to gather information in the public domain about the company and their products. How does that differ from them using Kunal Das’s software to “clip” articles for internal use? As long as it is attributable, which it is by the linkage back, isn’t that a valid use?

Again, I am not trying to be contrarian, or even annoying. I am just trying to figure out how the fair use of information in today’s society will be defined. And, how it will be in the distant future, as in 6 months hence… {grin}

Thanks

Tom

PS I will now add your blog(s) to my growing reading list.

Glad you read through to my original post…

I’m not against keeping a blog that’s a full quoteblog as a privately searchable weblog is wrong at all… but I am against stealing full posts publicly.

I also know that your comments weren’t meant as a personal attack… no worries there, mate.

And, I support clipping services. They make attributes and they’re for private use… and generally send people to the source, if they’re so inclined to check sources… Offline that’s a pain in the ass sometimes, but online, it’s sooo easy, I think it’s a travesty if people don’t attribute their sources (Robery and Don both do this wuote well, by the way, but because we’re online, they shouldn’t quote entire posts… it’s not needed to distribute the information).

The issue here is that the main blog we started pointing at DWS, has done this in a public context and due to the nature of the posting style (no quote style) it is very hard to initially figure he did not actually write the post. When you directly post a full piece from someone else and it starts written in the first person, it’s hard to see it that way.

I use quotes on my site often and quote, link and reference as best as I can. There are only rare (and brief post) instances where utilizing the full piece from someone else is done.

It’s part personal choice on your own site, but more that that it’s common courtesy. It’s be nice to get recognized with the traffic your post deserves rather than having it directed it to someone elses site.

I have always been a little conflicted about how to use quotations from other (often far better) webloggers or writers. I try to set them off and provide a link, since I generally try to minimize the amount quoted while giving the reader the option to see the quotation in context.

I think this is a good issue to bring up: good manners never go out of style.

I’m not arguing with your post, I agree that people generally shouldn’t copy complete text of someone else’s work into their own weblog, unless that person grants them permission. The Creative Commons tag is just granting permission for those people, and I hope that quoteblog authors would stick to quoting posts that give them permission.

Copying and pasting a full article which is not copyrighted explicitly for such republishing (under a CC license, or something similar) would be considered, I believe, a violation of United States copyright laws, even if it is properly attributed.

“Fair Use” under copyright laws usually requires an amount equal to approximately 10% of the work for use in a critique. Anything more than that, and you need explicit permission from the author of the content.

People seem to forget that just because you can copy paste text and put it somewhere new doesn’t mean that you’re legally allowed to.

(Feel free to correct me on any of the points of law I’ve quoted – I’m working from best recollection, and things I say may be wrong.)

Updated my sideblog templates to the simplified ones found here. Much better!

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