Copyright policy
 

Love to see some examples of where we violated the fair use doctrine. Might help to give us a better feel for it. Or would that be too close to calling out individuals?

I think most of the issues get cleaned up pretty quickly.

But one example would be posting a quote from a website, book, or journal without providing the bibliographic details.

Another example that pops up now and then is where people post a long (multi-paragraph) exerpt of an article ... and especially if that article is from a site which requires a password or payment to access the information.

Carbon, Imma go ape-college-crazy on you and start citing my works. I'm going to do a whole bibliography, just like for my 60 page summary thesis, with my 10 page works cited.

:D ;)

P.S. Love ya! ---------> koffee

That's right! I'm always been really careful to never quote myself, only post links. But you're gonna do it right. Op cit yourself! Funny, none of the Powers-That-Be bothered to point anything out that anyone had done wrong. Myself, I couldn't think of an instance off-hand. But from now on, every time I quote James Madison, I'm gonna provide a link. You too, beautiful.

I'm gonna cite the Constitution, then cite all 40 signers! And I'm gonna link it back to George Washington's grave, Mt. Vernon, VA. And when I cite myself, I'm going to use APA format and cite back to my original comment and provide the link. Then, I can't sue myself. Because I'm crazy like that.

Seriously. :)

Live dangerously! Carpe diem! :D

koffee

The instances in question get deleted.

And one of the offenders has since been banned.

Most of the copyright violations occur in P&R. The forum has had legal issues pop up so we're being more diligent in enforcing the guidelines.