Re: Using magazine articles

At 03:21 PM 7/18/01 -0700, Debbie O'Meara wrote:
>Hello all--
>
>A client wants to include magazine articles on her site.  She's quoted,
>referenced, written a sidebar, or otherwise been involved in the articles,
>but she didn't write them.  She says that she's checked with colleagues who
>have articles on their sites and they all claim that there's no copyright
>problem, but I'm not convinced.  She's offered to sign some kind of waiver
>for me so that I wouldn't be held responsible for copyright infringement.
>How have the rest of you dealt with this?
>
>Thanks,
>Debbie O'Meara

Hello Debbie

Unless the woman has actually written the articles herself, she cannot 
place them on her website without permission from the author.

She can place those items she wrote, like the sidebars, and editorials, as 
she wrote them, and link them to actual articles if they are already 
online. She can take some small parts of the articles, and use them as 
"fair use" in commentary or critiques, but not the whole thing.

All she needs is permission from the authors themselves to place them 
online, so have her ask, and get it in writing that permission has been 
granted.

And if you need articles on copyrights, their uses and myths, there are a 
lot of them available online.

hth and good luck.


Kimiko Drew
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