And I pulled up a bunch of links to prompt conversation.
Rich Jacobson made the cut.
So did Lenn Harley, of course.
A good place to start:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf
Some information on PERMISSION, attribution, licensing of content, images, etc:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Seems like a lot of folks reserve rights to site content, or specify how to gain permission and how to attribute content to the owner.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html
http://www.inman.com/about/legal
http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/reprintrights.htm
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/legal/copyright.php?howto_report
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
http://www.vimeo.com/terms Have to scroll down
http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_education
http://ezinearticles.com/terms-of-service.html
http://ezinearticles.com/faq/6/article-writing-components#question-20
http://activerain.com/blogsview/479085/-plagiarism-for-dummies-the-activerain-community-guidelines-re-visited
Note the point about the difference between "Reprint" and "Republish."
http://activerain.com/blogs/lennharley/tags/copyright
Some possible discussion topics:
Does anyone thoroughly understand copyright and infringement?
"Bueller? Bueller"
If an associate can reuse others' content without proper permission or attribution, outside Fair Use, with little fear of being caught, does that qualify as "Doing the Right Thing?"
Is that conduct a behavior model we want to support in the community?
Gaining Permission and documentation of permission.
Attribution as required by the owner of the copyright of the content.
Fair Use
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