[governance] A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

KovenRonald at aol.com [05/03/08 15:42 -0500]:
>believe that copyright encourages speech by rewarding   it. But I'm having a 
>hard time understanding the distinction between posting the text of a fairly 
>short article for the edification of a small group and the posting of a link. 

A lot of that has evolved into a fairly common rule of "netiquette" about
forwarding relevant parts or snippets from the article, with editorial
comment.  That brings it within the "fair use" principles of copyright law.
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