[12694] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Netiquette query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Warren)
Wed Jan 27 20:20:00 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:09:00 -0500
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
In-Reply-To: <48256705.00061180.00@nhqg01.nlb.gov.sg>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Errors-To: jwarren@well.com
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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>Seems that the only objection ever raised was one in the United Kingdom
>where a newspaper brought another newspaper to court on the contention that
>the defendant had made the links appear as if the litigant's site was part
>of the defendant's site.
>
>Attribution of links would solve the objections I am aware of ...
NOT SO! One of the major whines of advertising-supported publishers is
that they paid for creating the material, but some other ad-supported site
is using the material ... with or without attribution to the originator.
Ad-supported publishers include editorial content to get readers to read
*their* publication ... not merely to receive attribution for their
copyrighted content when it appears in someone else's publication.
Similarly, any free-lancer who researches and writes a substantive article
(or snaps a desirable photo!), who wants to get *paid* for their work --
will most-certainly NOT be satisfied to receive nothing more than
attribution.
(I am *not* "siding" with the publishers -- just trying to point out their
rather-legitimate howl. This whole thing is a *huge* contorted problem on
the net -- and it's going to get much, much worse.)
--jim-with-the-problems-but-no-solutions
Jim Warren, Contributing Editor & columnist, MicroTimes Magazine
Also GovAccess list-owner/editor
