[Air-L] public private

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

I suggest that for most of the purposes of research, the use of the  
materials in question from the internet are not derivative uses, but  
novel uses and thus the inclusion of copyrighted material under the  
rubric of fair use does not matter so long as the inclusion is  
properly cited and referenced.  However, I am not a lawyer and would  
prefer to hear from some of the notable law professors on this.    
Because the rule on citing and using texts from the internet, in my  
opinion, must be the same or a very close rule to using any other  
copyrighted text.  If i can quote and cite from a book as  
evidence.... then, published materials on the internet must follow a  
similar rule, no?


Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron