Re: Quote ownership

[Jone Johnson <jj@pbat.com>]

At 03:25 AM 8/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I doubt there's any official set of rules on this, but how do other 
>Quotation Ring members feel about the quotes on their site? Do they feel a 
>sense of ownership about them, or do they assume they're going to be 
>borrowed by others and feel comfortable about this?
I own the copyright to the organization of my quotations, though I cannot 
own the individual ones if I've taken them under fair use and copyright 
rules.  (No whole poems unless they're old enough to be in the public 
domain, for instance.)  It is the organization of my site which is the 
specific creative work into which I've poured so much time and 
effort.  Thus, my site indicates that it's okay to borrow "a few" -- that's 
why they're there! -- but not to take whole sections.
I do try, when people assert copyright to items in my collection, to give 
them the credit and the link.  Sometimes I'm a bit slow to get around to 
updating, but I eventually do.
Generally, as I understand and practice copyright rules, you can copyright 
a list but not the individual items on that list, if those items themselves 
are not copyrightable.
I think that "requiring" a link for taking more than one quotation is just 
plain silly.  But requesting it is not an unfair request.  It's important 
to give creativity SOME reward.
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