Head of S.F.'s Library Resigns Under Pressure (fwd) -

[CMUNSON]

     And what are we attempting to prove here? A person sends the text of a 
     news story that may be of interest to the folks on this list. Then we 
     get in response some scolding based on some notion of netiquette that 
     some of us disagree with. While there are some librarians that support 
     the concept of ownership of information, there are some of us who have 
     serious objections to that view. I've been using the Internet for 
     around 6 years and I find the excessive privitization of information 
     to be highly disturbing. I'm find it sadly distressing to read 
     messages from librarians that amount to "shhhhh. Don't share that 
     information."
     
     Maybe we should make patrons in libraries pay royalties to publishers 
     each time they read something.
     
     These opinions are mine and not my employer's.
     
     Chuck Munson
     Wash, DC


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Subject: Re: Head of S.F.'s Library Resigns Under Pressure (fwd) -Rep
Author:  o-tech at o-tech.com at Internet
Date:    1/23/97 5:11 AM


Karen makes a compelling point about forwarding news.  See 
http://www.benedict.com/enewsfax.htm#enews
for verification.
     
Eva Holtsmark
     
KAREN SCHNEIDER wrote:
> 
> fyi, folks, before this message gets forwarded all over planet
> earth... while I'm not sorry to see Dowlin go, forwarding entire 
> articles from SFGate is not allowed.  I checked, by the way,
> before making that comment; they wrote back and said, "You
> cannot copy or otherwise incorporate one of our stories without
> permission. "  That's pretty clear.  I wouldn't bring this up on the 
> list (I addressed it in private with forwarder 1 and forwarder 2)
> but I have now seen a web4lib post crawl to Autocat, and who
> knows where it will go next.  If it has permissions, they should be 
> so stated.  We're librarians, y'know?