Recently, I've noticed that in our comment strings that a few folks have started to cut and paste full text articles from daily newspapers. While this might be common in an email discussion or a USENET group, the guidelines here are a little different as we require that our commenters respect copyrights.
So, if you want to include an article as part of a comment, please keep the concept of "fair use" in mind. In practice, that means you can excerpt a portion of an article, not reproduce it in its entirety. Fortunately for us, you can easily embed an html tag into your comment that points to a full text source.
Other than that, just keep your comments punchy, pithy and relevant to the post involved, and you'll be ok.
Thanks for listening.
So, if you want to include an article as part of a comment, please keep the concept of "fair use" in mind. In practice, that means you can excerpt a portion of an article, not reproduce it in its entirety. Fortunately for us, you can easily embed an html tag into your comment that points to a full text source.
Other than that, just keep your comments punchy, pithy and relevant to the post involved, and you'll be ok.
Thanks for listening.
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