Arnoud writes: > And if you want to use a small portion of our text, you're citing from > our work, so that's already covered in copyright law (you must give us > credit, not cite more than necessary, etc).
Under "fair use" I can quote from your text for critical or educational purposes, but I can't use your material in the sense of substituting a small portion of your work for work I would otherwise have written myself. Example: you write a novel that contains a 300 word description of Whitefish Bay as seen from the Iroquois Point lighthouse on a stormy November day. I can I can quote you to prove you wrong: "As you can see in the photo in fig. 55, Arnoud's description is quite inaccurate...". I can quote you to analyze your sentence structure" "Arnaud's sentences tend to become quite ornate when he is setting the scene..." I can use your work as an example: "Arnaud's Iroquois Point novel is a fine example of the 'dark and stormy night' genre..." I cannot, however, insert the description into my own novel to save myself the trouble of writing it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
