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[Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin AT creativecommons.org>]

http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/04/30/copyright-fair-use-in-the-blogosphere/

Copyright and fair use in the blogosphere

A recent incident in the blogosphere has sparked a discussion on the role of copyright and fair use laws in the digital world.

Last week, Shelley Batts - a PhD student - was accused of a fair use violation for pulling a figure and a chart from a scientific paper to post on her blog. Soon after Batts posted the data on her site, she received an e-mail from John Wiley & Sons, a leading scholarly and scientific publisher, accusing her of violating fair use and threatening legal action. She engaged in an exchange with the representative from Wiley, reproduced the data in an Excel format, and avoided legal penalty.

Her experience raises a larger question, though. In the world of blogging where cutting and pasting is common practice, how do copyright and fair use laws apply? [...]

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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin AT creativecommons.org
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