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That's why creative commons licenses are useful. If the content they want to use is under CC, they don't need to ask because the terms are perfectly clear. The
by reidrac 13y ago
That's why creative commons licenses are useful. If the content they want to use is under CC, they don't need to ask because the terms are perfectly clear.
There's also fair use, but IANAL and I think that they should definitely ask (because of the "all right reserved" part).
- chilldream 13y agoCopying entire works (even a blog post counts) is not fair use.
- reidrac 13y agoI didn't say that; but I'm still not a lawyer.
- Amezarak 13y agoThere have been several cases where courts ruled that copying an entire work was fair use. Substantiality is only one of the considerations. For example, in Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation, the court ruled that even though they had copied the entire work, it was OK because that's how much they needed to copy for their intended (otherwise legitimate, commercial, and transformative) use.