Monday, July 6, 2009

Copyright on blog rants

Can you make copyright claims to a posting on somebody's Facebook wall?

See, this is an important question because a small-town newspaper printed somebody's online rant as a letter to the editor. Without asking permission.

I want to get my letters to the editor printed. But I submit them to the newspaper. It can't be right for papers to publish people's work without being given permission by the author. Hopefully the judge in the case will reach the right decision and stop editors from just copy-pasting stuff off the internet. Where I come from, that's plagiarism.

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