PocketPCTools.com - "Copyright Fight" with Ziff Davis
PocketPCTools.com - "Copyright Fight" with Ziff Davis: "We are currently being threatend with legal action by a large organization that produces news stories (I am trying to find out if I am 'allowed' to post the emails they have sent me). A while back (about a month and 70 posts ago), one of our admins posted a story that introduced you to one of their stories. Needless to say, there was a small editorial about the said story, a short quote from the story, a link to, and full credit given to them for the story.
Well, yesterday we got an email from their 'Rights & Permissions Manager' (do companies actually have full time people harassing Fan sites such as ours?!?). In the email they stated that 'It has come to our attention that pocketpctools.com is using our eWeek copyrighted material on its website'.
We were under them impression that the Fair Use Doctrine allows us to quote stories (within reason) as long as we give full credit to the source and only quote a small portion of the story (which is what we did). What is really strange about this, is that we simply brought the story to light, we did not bad mouth it, slam it, or otherwise do damage to the author or story... We just reported it."
Well, yesterday we got an email from their 'Rights & Permissions Manager' (do companies actually have full time people harassing Fan sites such as ours?!?). In the email they stated that 'It has come to our attention that pocketpctools.com is using our eWeek copyrighted material on its website'.
We were under them impression that the Fair Use Doctrine allows us to quote stories (within reason) as long as we give full credit to the source and only quote a small portion of the story (which is what we did). What is really strange about this, is that we simply brought the story to light, we did not bad mouth it, slam it, or otherwise do damage to the author or story... We just reported it."
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