re use of OED

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, mark worden wrote:

> Please disregard and destroy the post, "red line via OED" wherein the author
> of that post quoted copyrighted material, without permission.

Do you mean you think you did something wrong in posting the quotations
without permission of the quotation authors, or that you did something
wrong in posting editorial material from the OED?  Either interpretation
of copyright law and fair use would cast many of us on this list in a
very, very bad light indeed!

Fred Shapiro


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