k7aro
08-13-2003, 07:27 PM
This post was deleted since it was a flagrant violation of the Copyright Law of the United States. The person who posted it refused to admit his mistake and, instead, made a "flippant" post later in the thread.
Therefore, since it is the policy of QRZ.com not to knowingly violate the Copyright Law of the United States, I have been forced to delete the post.
The person who made the post was advised in a private E-Mail about the situation and chose to not only ignore the warning, but to reply in such a manner to to compound his offense.
As such, I have chosen to delete his original remarks and to "lock down" this thread. If the person who posted the original thread continues to violate the Copyright Law of the United States then he WILL be banned from the site.
The same thing goes for others. It is NOT a violation of the Copyright Law to excerpt portions (not the entire) of copyrighted items so long as it is indicated that the information was excepted from a copyrighted item and that the source and original author are listed. This is known as "fair use". But, to quote something either in its entire form, or by a significant portion WITHOUT the express consent of the copyright holder, or by not revealing the source, is definitely illegal.
For the matter of record, with the Bono Amendment that was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States several months ago, it now takes 95 years before any copyrighted item becomes part of the public domain. Also, everything is automatically copyrighted when it is created by the original author (or photographer, etc.) and it is NOT a requirement that the information be registered. All that registering does is to decrease the effort required to gain up to trebel ("triple") damages from the person(s) who violated the copyright law. Those are in addition to all legal and court fees due to the litigation.
Prior to the Bono Amendment, and persistant to the Berne Copyright Convention, the period for copyrights in the United States was 75 years. Although the original copyrights were for 37 years with the provision for renewal, they were extended by Title 17 of the United States Code in 1994 to 75 years.
Posting on the Internet does NOT place an item into the public domain. Posting on the Internet is like any other publication method including magazines, recordings, newspapers, etc. It is ILLEGAL to take items from the Internet for further publication without the permission of the copyright holder unless the information is in the public domain (published before 1908). You can use quotations, etc., so long as it falls into the "free use" provision. But, those only apply to small quotations, etc., and the source MUST be given.
Even the material contained within private E-Mails is technically copyrighted by the original sender and cannot be repeated without his/her specific permission in terms of exact wording, text styles, etc.
Anyway, a word to the wise: Please don't post material that you know to be copyrighted unless it falls into the "fair use" arena and, if you do this, please post the source and original author.
Glen, K9STH
One of the QRZ.com moderators
Therefore, since it is the policy of QRZ.com not to knowingly violate the Copyright Law of the United States, I have been forced to delete the post.
The person who made the post was advised in a private E-Mail about the situation and chose to not only ignore the warning, but to reply in such a manner to to compound his offense.
As such, I have chosen to delete his original remarks and to "lock down" this thread. If the person who posted the original thread continues to violate the Copyright Law of the United States then he WILL be banned from the site.
The same thing goes for others. It is NOT a violation of the Copyright Law to excerpt portions (not the entire) of copyrighted items so long as it is indicated that the information was excepted from a copyrighted item and that the source and original author are listed. This is known as "fair use". But, to quote something either in its entire form, or by a significant portion WITHOUT the express consent of the copyright holder, or by not revealing the source, is definitely illegal.
For the matter of record, with the Bono Amendment that was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States several months ago, it now takes 95 years before any copyrighted item becomes part of the public domain. Also, everything is automatically copyrighted when it is created by the original author (or photographer, etc.) and it is NOT a requirement that the information be registered. All that registering does is to decrease the effort required to gain up to trebel ("triple") damages from the person(s) who violated the copyright law. Those are in addition to all legal and court fees due to the litigation.
Prior to the Bono Amendment, and persistant to the Berne Copyright Convention, the period for copyrights in the United States was 75 years. Although the original copyrights were for 37 years with the provision for renewal, they were extended by Title 17 of the United States Code in 1994 to 75 years.
Posting on the Internet does NOT place an item into the public domain. Posting on the Internet is like any other publication method including magazines, recordings, newspapers, etc. It is ILLEGAL to take items from the Internet for further publication without the permission of the copyright holder unless the information is in the public domain (published before 1908). You can use quotations, etc., so long as it falls into the "free use" provision. But, those only apply to small quotations, etc., and the source MUST be given.
Even the material contained within private E-Mails is technically copyrighted by the original sender and cannot be repeated without his/her specific permission in terms of exact wording, text styles, etc.
Anyway, a word to the wise: Please don't post material that you know to be copyrighted unless it falls into the "fair use" arena and, if you do this, please post the source and original author.
Glen, K9STH
One of the QRZ.com moderators