How can I avoid copyright infringement?

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StandardsGuy Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North America, Earth Posts: 4528 Good Answers: 106	How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/09/2007 11:19 PM
	I want to post a thread based on a book or two, and I want to use some direct quotes. On the back of the title page I read something like "No part of this book can be reproduced electronically or by any other means without written consent of the publisher." I want to credit the author, but the publisher is standing in the way. How can I avoid the legal entanglements of copyright infringement and still post the thread? __________________ “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman
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timetraveler Commentator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Midwest America and proud of it. Posts: 59 Good Answers: 1	#1 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/09/2007 11:34 PM
	Contact the publisher or the author if they wish to have any involvoment and trust your motives, they wiil supply permission release forms. I have some friends that deal with copywrite issues all the time. I doubt much of this would matter in the ether. __________________ "A new form of matter at the coldest temperatures in the universe."
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Jakey Jake Associate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 48	#2 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/10/2007 9:59 AM
	As long as you're not posting anything for profit, the chances that you would face copyright infingement are so scarce that they shouldn't even cross your mind. All you need to do is credit the author anyway, and the worst they could do is make you retract your thread...and at that, they would have to prove that your actions caused damages to them and / or their company. Look up the APA method of formatting and use that when you right your thread. Just include the works at the end. __________________ "Of all the education that I've had, I thank God for my mother...and the Sh!t-ton of Lego's she bought me!"
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Jakey Jake Associate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 48	#3 In reply to #2 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/10/2007 10:00 AM
	When you WRITE your thread...I hate missing things like that... __________________ "Of all the education that I've had, I thank God for my mother...and the Sh!t-ton of Lego's she bought me!"
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cnpower Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: CHINA Posts: 2945 Good Answers: 14	#4 In reply to #3 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/11/2007 6:31 AM
	what name of the book? most of author like some abstract at web.
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Anonymous Poster	#5 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/11/2007 8:34 AM
	quote it and use footnotes and/or references basic grade 9 english rules
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Milo Guru Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: "Dancing over the abyss." Posts: 4884 Good Answers: 243	#6 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/11/2007 11:26 AM
	QUotes should be fine. as long as they are not substantial portion of your post. I see that you are from the US- Your government doesn't lock you out of certain websites so google or wikipedia fair use and you'll feel quite comfortable that the publisher will have a long way to go to prove you are out of line. Heres a link to a sweet digest of FAir use doctrine from section 107 of the US copyright law: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html milo __________________ People say between two opposed opinions the truth lies in the middle. Not at all! Between them lies the problem, what is unseeable,eternally active life, contemplated in repose. Goethe
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goosemydog Power-User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 126 Good Answers: 1	#7 In reply to #6 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/11/2007 2:44 PM
	If a book is over 50 years old, the publisher is no longer in business and the author, long gone, is the book in public domaine? __________________ goosemydog
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StandardsGuy Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North America, Earth Posts: 4528 Good Answers: 106	#8 Re: How can I avoid copyright infringement? 05/13/2007 12:29 AM
	Thanks, guys. That is useful information. I appreciate it. S __________________ “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman
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