Dear all,
I agree with Linda and am all for a creative commons license. Sharing information and learning from others was my main reason for joining EATAW.
Kind regards,
Janneke van der Loo
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From: Linda McPhee <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:56:33 +0100
Subject: Re: Material on the web
I'm not a lawyer, but if we as a group decide that postings have a Creative Commons license, probably this one:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
(which allows non-commercial use, with attribution) then John's collation of material on a website, showing authors, would be perfectly ok. We haven't, as a group, had this discussion. Maybe we should, since it could be useful to allow that. Have a look at the link and tell us all what you think. We'd then have to put a rider on the description of the mailing list that anything posted on the mailing list would be licensed in this way.
Otherwise, such postings are under copyright of their authors (not EATAW). Exceptions would be people who work where their employer claims copyright of their work (I think it's unlikely that EATAW members will be under such a system).
Quoting without citing the author would indeed be a breach of copyright. It's plagiarism.
Quoting more than a brief except of an email without permission, even with attribution, outside the list is a violation of fair use in the copyright that currently applies to EATAW posts... another argument in favour of the "CC by-nc 3.0" license.
Linda McPhee
On 26 Mar 2011, at 13:39, Alex Barthel wrote:
> surely John, the fact that the material may be copyright does not mean you need to withdraw it, just acknowledge the source.
> alex
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> On 26/03/11 5:52 PM, "John G. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> It has been pointed out to me that EATAW material is copyright. I have therefore withdrawn my file on African English on my site. Apologies.
> John Taylor
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