[Fwd: Re: [Sussex] Copyright/Copyleft...]

[Geoff Teale]

Sorry,

I sent this to Mathew yesterday - should have gone to the list:

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Copyright/Copyleft...
Date: 20 Oct 2003 17:11:55 +0100

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 17:01, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> So as long as I give credit for work that is not mine, including
> attributing copyright to the correct authors, and state quite clearly
> that this has come from another source and it not of my own making, I am
> ok?

Hmm, well if you have permission from the author of the material (either
explicitly or by compliance with some license) then you may reproduce
their material, if no however then you would be a copyright infringer
and thus in breech of the contract (either implied or explicitly defined
by a license) between you and the author.

> The site it's being used for is purely my own writings at the moment,
> however I hope this will change.  If I ensure that the author of the
> work is solely responsible for the creation and release of that document
> through my content management system then I should be covered?

If the author places their own material into your system then they
implicitly agree to it's use in that manner.  You may wish to formally
get authors to tick a box on your CMS to state that they agree to those
terms (or indeed they agree to publish their work under the FDL).

> Thanks a lot for this, I might even make the moot this month, so I'll
> buy you a beers as thanks! :D

:)

Any time.
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GJT 
gteale at cmedltd.com 
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