the law is not an wut?!
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] on 15Apr Maryn say: [snip] There have been times I've talked at length in chat rooms or
] forums. If you lifted my words, attributed them to the site name and my user name, and
] quoted them in your work, you're still violating my copyright.
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wurm say: "violating my copyright"? VIOLATING? *violating*?!?! ... Why this is utter
nonsense! I am not "violating" anything, least of all your copyright. communication itself
is based upon the exchange and common-use of words and ideas. if the law "presumes"
that communication is a violation of something, then the law is an-ass. Figures that once
you admit the Law into any topic, it immediately decends into the very abyss of aburdity!
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] M: Why? Because copyright law specifically covers what quoting is fair use (comment and
] criticism, and parody). Everything that is not fair use is not permitted. There are four
] factors in the laws which determine what is fair use: the purpose and character of your
] use, the nature of the work, and amount you use, and what your use does to potential
] marketability of the work. [snip]
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w: now this is what i call very useful information. perhaps the law is not so dum after
all. but it most certainly IS when and if it forbids my freedom of speech and expression!
"fair use" indeed! I don't use others words to insult or disparage anyone, or in any
*violate* their dignity as individual human persons. far from it. one of the chief
aims / goals of all my writings is education, edification, and illumination!
And, not incidently, this is precisely what philosophy is all about.
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] M: Your editor or publisher will know that, or should. I suspect that if your work
] contains a lot of it, it may not be publishable.
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w: would about 30%, say, be considered too much? just how much is too much?
dialogue is integral and essential to philosophy. dialogue is itself the purest expression of
philosophy in action! ask a question, then answer it. raise a topic, then discuss it. dialogue
is a living and dynamic process of communication and education. without it philosophy
withers and dies like an unwatered plant. check it out.
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] M: -- Maryn, bearer of bad tidings
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w: Yeah, well, maybe bad AND good tidings?
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btw: & before we go any further ... i do, in fact, have a tendency to "port" some of my
better postings over to my website; and hence potentially into the MS (and even perhaps
to possible inclusion in the chapter entitled 'Why Teaching Philosophy to Writers is a Lot
Like Herding Cats!'). So if you don't wish to see your words spinning completely out of
your control forevermore and amen, then U might be-wise to think twice about committing
yourself to any kind of dialogue with a seriously strange-o philosopher! ... Beware U!
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And so from now on I shall consider that *all* of you have been sufficently-warned . . .
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... Fair-use *indeed*!
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Nuff Said! -- your ever-dangerous newbie - cybrwurm ;>
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