Re: Pluto's OK


In message <huBIg.18299$L6.15136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jonathan
<Write@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes


You can 'publish' anything you like on a personal blog.
Unless you're making money off of it, anything goes.
And unless they have it behind a credit card or such
...anything goes. If they're not making money off it
anything goes.

Which in no way relieves you of liability for libel. The First Amendment
gives you the right to say something- it does *not* relieve you of liability
for saying it.

Putting something on the internet isn't publishing, it's
private speech.

Well, you can believe that, but you're only half-right (a step up for you).
It may be private speech, but it's *still* publishing. If you put a story of
yours on the internet and then try to sell it, you'd better make certain
you're only selling reprint rights, otherwise it's fraud. Check out the
listings in Writer's Market and see if they think that posting on the
Internet isn't publishing.

A personal blog or this post has
first amendment protection. Copyright laws do not
apply at all to speech.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaah! If I make a speech and you publish it without
permission, bring your checkbook. The First Amendment is not at all related
to copyright.

Except that such internet speech, "as the most participatory form of
mass speech yet developed, deserves the very highest level
of first amendment protection". To quote Justice Renquist
in the decision.

Which *in no way whatsoever* affects copyright law.


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