Jonathan Bailey of the Blog Herald writes:
“When it comes to matters of copyright, many bloggers are simply asking for trouble and don’t realize that they are doing so.They take images and put them in their entries without a thought to where they got them, they take articles, in whole or large part, without a thought to who wrote wrote it and tell themselves that their copying of the content is protected by fair use.
This type of behavior is not only very risky, but also shows a lack of understanding of what fair use is, how it works and what it was designed to protect. This causes many bloggers, especially new ones, to put themselves in risk that they never would have otherwise.
To make fair use work, it is important that we not only understand what it protects, but also what the limitations of it are and understand both the actions it doesn’t protect as well as the headaches it can’t prevent.”
Read the full article at this link.
See also: How much is that doggie on the sofa?
Related posts:
What to do about copyright
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ian in hamburg
February 19, 2008
TT! It’s so great to hear from you again. How are you? I was following your tumblr blog via feed and sometimes wanted to comment, h’ver… no comments allowed. Thanks for the link back!
timethief
February 19, 2008
Hi Ian,
It’s good to hear from you too. My tumblr blog is a “notes” blog. I keep the links and basic ideas in those short posts on that blog and then I link them to the full posts that I place in this blog. If you want to read the full posts then it’s this blog that you will find them in and this blog’s feed that you will follow. If you want to see in advance which topics I’m researching and will be posting about here then you can follow the tumblr feed.
Actually tumblr blogs are different from wp.com blogs. They are meant to be scrapbook and aggregation blogs hence, the lack of commenting ability. I’m finally catching on to how to use them effectively.