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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Mostly I post the full text of stuff that's short (one screen of
> text), or available only with subscription; otherwise, a summary or
> opening paragraph plus URL is best. If the copyright owners complain,
> we can take it out of the archives.
>
> Doug
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I've been saving just about all the news articles I post here and on pen-l. I'm fairly sure others do too. So if they have to be purged from the archives there's probably enough redundancy built up by participants to make retrieval requests fairly easy. I post the pieces because not everyone on the list can access all the links alone.
"The noblest of human productions--knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas--become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use" (Louis Brandeis, International News Service vs. Associated Press, 1918)
It seems to me one can no more own knowledge and information than one can own the division of labor.
Ian