I thought we all should read this and be advised accordingly



Federal Judge: Republishing Full Story Without Permission Was OK


By Phil Villarreal on June 21, 2011 9:45 AM



(James Stephen)

According to a ruling by a federal judge, a man was legally protected when he copied and pasted an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal article, including a headline, onto another site. The judge said the man wouldn't have to pay a Copyright Act fine because the newspaper couldn't prove that the article's re-posting reduced the amount of readers who would read the original article.

Wired reports the judge ruled that the man's copy-and-paste qualified as fair use — a copyright law term that allows others to republish copyrighted material without attaining the rights. The organization that sued sought to make the man pay a $150,000 fine.

In coming to his ruling, the judge decided that too little of the article, headlined "Public Employee Pensions: We Can't Afford Them," could be considered "purely creative opinions" for it to be considered a creative work, and that the man was further protected because he used the story for noncommercial purposes, to create a discussion about the topic.

Fair use is determined on a case-by-case basis, so bloggers would be foolish to see the ruling as a green light to start cutting and pasting articles to their sites. Still, it's a good bet that a whole lot of newspaper publishers are nervous about the ruling.

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So and I in trouble for copying and pasting this article

linky to site: http://consumerist.com/2011/06/federal-judge-republishing-full-story-without-permission-was-ok.html

Can I send this to TVT and get re-instated as LMM?