OT: Drupal in The New York Times

Meng Cheah meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 2 14:59:01 UTC 2009


William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:12:18AM -0500, Meng Cheah wrote:
>   
>> The New York Times
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02open.html
>>     
>
> I realize that copy-and-paste is easy, but it is actually not OK
> to reproduce the text of an article in its entirety and redistribute it
> - even with attribution, under standard copyright.
>
> If the NYT still required login to view the articles, and you wished to
> protest that restriction you would at least have some reason to
> illegally redistribute their articles, but even that reason is invalid.
>
> Republishing, with attribution, an excerpt with your commentary would be
> both legal and much more welcome.
>   
Thanks.
IANAL
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