Trudgill in Vocabula

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Robert Hartwell Fiske wrote:

#The copyright to your piece in Vocabula is indeed yours, and you do have the
#right to send the article to others. But no one has the right to copy the
#piece from my site and email it to others without my permission. I trust you
#agree.
#
#Ms Flanigan is apparently in the habit of flouting copyright laws:
#
#"So, if a subscriber to a journal makes a copy and sends it on to someone
#else (let's say, by snail mail), that's a copyright infringement?  How about the
#millions of people who copy articles from libraries??  I guess I'll have to
#tell my students to stop xeroxing from journals!"
#
#I'm not sure that she should be encouraged.

Many people distinguish between
 1. making a single copy for personal use
 2. sending a copy (hard or electronic) to a friend
 3. sending the text to a mailing list
 4. putting the text on a website

-- as well as grades in between. While I *think* that all but #1 may be
in violation of statute, and even #1 under some (all??) circumstances, I
draw my own line of "publication" between 2 and 3.

-- Mark A. Mandel