The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48865 Message #735817
Posted By: GUEST,Phil Myers
24-Jun-02 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: The Dark Island
Subject: RE: DTStudy: The Dark Island
Joe,
Just out of curiosity, if it can't be in the DT for copyright reasons, why is it OK to post it on Mudcat?
Surely the same copyright restrictions would apply?
Phil
It's a slim distinction in some ways, but Mudcat is a discussion forum, and discussion generally falls under the "fair use" allowance granted by copyright law. The Digital Tradition is a more permanent and more formally indexed archive, and that tends to make copyright holders a little more nervous. In general, we have received very few complaints about information posted either in the Forum or in the Digital Tradition.
-Joe Offer-