Sites that ALLOW use of their material

[CanadaSue]

I remembered yesterday that there are some sites I use which are funded mainly by user contributions & which exist to disseminate information to anyone interested. They've got no problems with people cutting and pasting their material, as long as attribution is given - usually in the form of posting the URL to the original site. I came up with one 'instant example' & no doubt over the next several days, will find several more.

I suspect many of us know of at least one such site, if not more & I'd like people to post those they find here so we can all benefit. How to check? Go to your favourite sites & check the section called 'terms of use', 'fair use policy', 'terms of service' or anything similar.

If you find your favourite site does allow or even encourage others to c&p their material, c&p the section that states that clearly, then give the URL. I'll give the first example below with the type of wording that should be repeated here so we're all clear.

[CanadaSue]

Citing ProMED-mail

ProMED-mail reports are freely available for retransmission, on-line posting, or publication provided that ProMED-mail is cited as the source of the material. When referencing ProMED-mail reports in published work, we suggest the format used in the following example, which is based on the Vancouver style:

ProMED-mail. West Nile virus, humans - USA (Louisiana). ProMED-mail 2002; 12 Jul: 20020712.4737. <http://www.promedmail.org>. Accessed 18 July 2002.

[Author. Title. Journal/bulletin name followed by year; volume/date: Archive number. <URL>. Access date.]


http://www.promedmail.org/pls/apex/f...231927266:::::

[flourbug]

There's a huge list of audio, video, text, learning, and other sites that use the creative commons license. The list changes, but it is quite large.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

[shalym]

Anything created by the US Government is not copyrighted. I take this to include the texts of laws, as well as pages produced by the gov that explain the laws and how to use certain services, such as Social Security.

See http://thisbluemarble.com/showpost.p...4&postcount=10 and http://thisbluemarble.com/showpost.p...5&postcount=12

Shari

[shalym]

PC World allows re-posting to non-commercial sites.

During the term of this Agreement, PCWorld.com grants to you a terminable, at-will, non-exclusive license to use and display the Service, and to download materials available through the Service, all solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not transfer, assign, sub-license, lend, or re-sell the rights granted under this license. You may not link to our site if you sell ads on your site or you charge a subscription fee to use or access your site. No deep linking directly to articles is permitted if you sell ads on your site or you charge a subscription fee to use or access your site. Any use in violation of these limits shall constitute a violation of the terms of this license. Absolutely no framing of our site is permitted.

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/termsofservice.html

Shari

[gsgs]

I keep seeing copyright claims on government webpages

[CanadaSue]

Can you give us an example, gs?

[gsgs]

links to copyrightfree stuff:


http://people.uwec.edu/koroghcm/public_domain.htm
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/af.html
http://www.ibiblio.org
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe...main_resources
http://answers.google.com/answers/ma...view&id=189815

[gsgs]

examples i.e. in Germany

http://www.bmg.bund.de/

but I also saw it for CDC and others,
e.g. EID (AFAIR)

[Auburn Boy]

Originally Posted by gsgs

examples i.e. in Germany

http://www.bmg.bund.de/

but I also saw it for CDC and others,
e.g. EID (AFAIR)

Most mention here, first refers to "U.S. Gubmint" stuff Gs..,

[shalym]

Originally Posted by gsgs

examples i.e. in Germany

http://www.bmg.bund.de/

but I also saw it for CDC and others,
e.g. EID (AFAIR)

Can you please post a link to this on the CDC.gov site? I looked, and couldn't find it.

Shari

[gsgs]

yes, they say now it's public domain.
I remember we had a thread at FT and AFAIR some
oder CDC-journal (EID) had restrictions

maybe also a blog entry at effectmeasure.com

NIH files patents

[Ought Six]

Voice of America News:

http://www.voanews.com/
---

WikiNews

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
---

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC):

http://epic.org/
---

CSPAN:
http://www.c-span.org/


CSPAN's policy is here:
http://www.c-span.org/About/Copyright.aspx

[CanadaSue]

gs, (& others) - before posting anything to indicate if something is available for C&P, please check CURRENT policies of those sites.

And this is a thread for sites we CAN link to, not those we cannot use.

[Ought Six]

http://www.liveleak.com/

You can embed video from LiveLeak in posts using the provided embed code, as we do with YouTube.

[Potemkin]

Originally Posted by gsgs

I keep seeing copyright claims on government webpages

Originally Posted by CanadaSue

Can you give us an example, gs?

Originally Posted by gsgs

examples i.e. in Germany

http://www.bmg.bund.de/

but I also saw it for CDC and others,
e.g. EID (AFAIR)

My technical German is schlecht but I think it allows personal, non-commercial use.

http://www.bmg.bund.de/cln_151/nn_11...tml?__nnn=true

Veröffentlichungsregeln

Es ist grundsätzlich möglich, kostenlos aus Publikationen und Veröffentlichungen des Ministeriums unverändert und im Sachzusammenhang zu zitieren, soweit eine korrekte Zitierweise und Quellenangabe sichergestellt ist. Die Abdruckgenehmigung enthält nicht etwaige zusätzlich erforderliche Genehmigung auf Grund von Nutzungsrechten Dritter. Soweit notwendig, wurden diese ausschließlich für die Veröffentlichung durch das BMG eingeholt.

[Ter]

www.stratfor.com

Reprinting or republication of this report on websites is authorized by prominently displaying the following sentence at the beginning or end of the report, including the hyperlink to STRATFOR: “This report is republished with the permission of STRATFOR: www.STRATFOR.com

[shalym]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/

80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles on the day's most compelling topics.

The posts are journalistic mashups, with quoted text in blue and the source of the quoted material identified in brackets—with a link, of course.

80beats is written by Andrew Moseman and Smriti Rao, and edited by Eliza Strickland. This team darts through each day's science news faster than the ruby-throated hummingbird that beats its wings 80 times per second. Send ideas, tips, suggestions, and complaints to [estrickland at discovermagazine dot com].

Copyright: Some Rights Reserved
As 80beats makes fair use of the work of many excellent publications, we think it's only proper to offer up our content for use by others. DISCOVER holds the exclusive copyright to each 80beats post for 30 days after publication, but on the 31st day the text is licensed under Creative Commons (please note that the images aren't ours to give away).

[shalym]

A way to search for articles covered by Creative Commons licenses:

http://search.creativecommons.org/

[shalym]

Here's another one:

http://www.physorg.com

Bloggers

For all other non-commercial uses of PHYSorg content, such as blogs, Web sites and the like, we rely on the parameters of "Fair Use" as set forth in the Copyright Act. Users may copy, transfer or reproduce up to 200 words of an article or story and then insert a hyperlink back to the original www.physorg.com content. By following these steps, no prior written or oral permission is required.

PHYSorg believes in the fair exchange of information between our academic and non-profit organizations around the world. If there are any specific requests for use of PHYSorg content not covered by the "Fair Use" permission discussed above, please contact our team. We will respond as quickly as possible to your requests.

Shari

[Ought Six]

This is from the CNS News copyright page:

Users/Subscribers may download copyrighted material from CNSNews.com for their personal use only, which includes personal discussion purposes on Internet news forums."

Please keep in mind that there are a lot of Associated Press articles on the CNS News site, and we may not quote or reproduce AP content at TBM.

[Ought Six]

Strike Stratfor from the list.

http://www.stratfor.com/terms_of_use

1.4 Members may not post any intelligence from the Service to newsgroups, mail lists, or electronic bulletin boards, without the prior written consent of STRATFOR.

The Discover Magazine 80 Beats blog has also removed its repro permission statement.

[Ought Six]

http://www.rferl.org/section/News/422.html

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty News

[gsgs]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty © 2010 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


there should be a webpage to collect all Public-Domain-News


general headlines that occur more than once, like
"7.2 Earthquake in Christchurch,NZ"
are hardly copyrighted.

First because mere news can't be copyrighted
Second, now would they show that you got it from
them and not from another source ?

So, one strategy could be to search for identical
snippets that appear on two different copyrighted webpages
and list them on another webpage.

[Ought Six]

So when are you going to create that cool news webpage? Oh, wait. You believe that *somebody else* should go do whatever you think is logical, right? Because everyone should just naturally see how positively brilliant your ideas are, and then drop whatever unimportant things they are doing in their lives and rush to implement your grand design as soon as humanly possible.

You are really good at telling others what they should do. I hold out some tiny speck of hope that you may one day come to the realization that your incessant demands will never be fulfilled, and that people merely find them irritating as hell. But it is a really, really tiny speck of hope.