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Originally Posted by CyGuy
The post you made above is copyright? ... Is this post I just made copyrighted?
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Yes, every online post, email, and blog post is copyrighted to its author.
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Am I in "trouble" for quoting you without your permission?
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No. Because (1) I don't mind (and indicate that by participating in discussions here, and quoting other people), which means quoting me in reply is an authorized use of copyrighted material, (2) quoting excerpts in order to reply strongly leans toward fair use/fair dealing, and (3) if I were really, really bitchy about it and wanted to make lawsuit noises, I'd probably have to prove some form of financial or social harm from your use of my words.
There are cases where that might be reasonably argued; this isn't one of them.
I went looking for Mobileread's copyright TOS and couldn't find one, which is refreshingly sane. (Online forums shouldn't need to have copyright policies; we have copyright laws for those issues. The fact that those laws are atrocious at coping with casual social exchange of data is supposed to be a feature, not a bug; they're designed to go after corporate infringements, not individual ones.)
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Once again I think copyright should last 7 years, and no more than 10 under any circumstances.
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I don't mind the 30-year idea; I'd like the original creator to have the ability to profit not only from a book, but from a movie & spinoff tv series, and those often won't happen in the space of a handful of years. I could even deal with extremely long renewals--but I want those to need to be registered. I want works to start falling into the public domain quickly if there's no specific reason for them to be held under the copyright monopoly.