On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:40:07PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > > Under English law, I'm only allowed to say "Daniel wrote ... " > > and include a chunk of copyrighted material within limited > > parameters called "fair dealing". For reference, "fair dealing" mostly just means review, education and research. There's a range of other limited cases but they aren't very significant. > How do you deal with bibliographies? You call the estate of the person in question and work out a deal. Or you write it without using any copyrighted stuff. > What about saying "Ray doesn't like > Lessig"? You'd probably run afoul of our libel laws (this doesn't infringe the copyright of anything). In the UK, you can't publish a (supposedly) factual statement about another person which that person doesn't like unless you can prove it. It's a little crazy but not overly hard to work around; say "I don't believe Ray likes Lessig". It's primarily invoked against the press. > There *has* to be room for more than just "Ray wrote...". Not particularly. The traditional method is to wait until they're dead and forgotten, and their estate has disappeared. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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