Anything that is free and downloadable from the net, is not free of copyright protection, UNLESS the website says so. It is a good idea to request permission from a publisher before you circulate alerts / include them in blogs etc. Long ago, I was a librarian at a consumer health library. I included news items in our website. I sent several mails to newspaper publishers requesting permission, but did not get any response. I saved the emails, incase we got into trouble. We also put up a statement on our website saying that if a publisher objected, we would remove all the news items I would advise all caution before you distribute / include these alerts Regards Vasumathi Sriganesh Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd. A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358 Mobile: 98211-14510 Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <geetha.v@tcs.com> To: <Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna@i2.com> Cc: <lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Copyright act for news paper articles Yes we do circulate daily to our associates on various topics as media alerts. Since thse are downloadable from the net, presume there is no copyright issue. Regards Geetha Venkatraman Tata Consultancy Services Limited SJM Towers, No.18, Seshadri Road, 6th Cross, Gandhinagar Bangalore - 560 009,Karnataka India Mailto: geetha.v@tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna@i2.com Sent by: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 02/28/2005 09:44 AM To lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in cc Subject [LIS-Forum] Copyright act for news paper articles Dear Professionals, I would like to know whether articles appear on news paper have any copyright issues. Is it permissible to scan the news items and use it for personal matters? (Ex. Using on our personal blogs, Circulation purpose...) Thanks n Regards **************************************** Sreeharsha BG KM Group i2 Technologies ?One i2 Place? #132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, Bangalore 560 037. Phone: +91-80-3028 8293 Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna@i2.com visit us @ www.i2.com **************************************** Heart has its reasons which reason can not understand...!!! _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ForwardSourceID:NT0000BF96 Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----
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