John H. wrote:
On 10 Nov 2005 15:51:14 -0800, "Curtis CCR" wrote:


Bill McKee wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Tom Cruise's Sister to Join Bush Staff
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-- Andy Borowitz

Did you send you check to Andy for ripping off his columns?

Was wondering the same thing. Harry is probably the biggest copyright
violator in this newsgroup. What makes his violations more agregious
is that they have pointed out to him numerous times - he doesn't seem
to care. Apparently copyright law does not apply to Harry. Or he
assumes that all evidence is eventually erased with his x-no-archive
command (which news servers are not obligated to acknowledge).

Is it a copyright violation if he leaves out pertinent paragraphs (unsupportive,
I mean), or adds some words, or changes some words?

Yes. Even though he omitted the last paragraph of the Borowitz piece,
it is still a copyright violation. Posting 6 of the 7 paragraphs, or
85% of a copyrighted work without permission is not an "excerpt" and
not "fair use."

If he adds or changes a few words, then Harry can't attribute them to
Borowitz, but by not giving the attribution, he would be engaging in
good old fashioned plagerism. Basically, if Harry writes any thing
about Tom Cruise's sister joining the Bush staff, he is ripping off a
story from Borowitz.

Harry knows how do this correctly, but I'll bet I know why he chooses
to do it the way he does.