Copyright question (Was: [e-lang] Planetlab? Evergrow)

[Ben Laurie]

Tyler Close wrote:

> Fred Spiessens wrote:
> 
>> Tyler,
>>
>> thanks for the reference to your site. This stuff is very relevant for 
>> what I'm doing.
> 
> 
> That's great.
> 
>> It says "all rights reserved", so I want to ask you if I can refer to 
>> the webcalculus and explain about it in my survey? (while properly 
>> mentioning the origins of course)
> 
> 
> Yes, of course. Please do.
> 
> I believe stating "All rights reserved." after a copyright notice is 
> standard practice. IANAL, but I think copyright merely prevents people 
> from distributing a document without prior permission. You are still 
> allowed to cite the document, quote from it and comment on it. Am I 
> mistaken?

Quoting from it is permitted to some extent (what extent being not 
really defined). Citing it is allowed, and so is commenting.

Really, if you want a document to actually be used, including some kind 
of licence is probably a better approach than reserving all rights.

Cheers,

Ben.

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