[LINK] Blogging question

Bernard Robertson-Dunn brd at iimetro.com.au
Sat Jan 19 12:48:01 AEDT 2013


To Tom and the others who provided advice and comments off-link,

Thank you, all very helpful.

On 19/01/2013 8:34 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 18/01/13 09:46, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>
>> If I make a comment on someone else's blog and then use most of that
>> comment on my own, should I attribute it? ...
> If you are an academic, then you should attribute your own work,
> including blog postings, if they have something substantial to say (this
> is in addition to any copyright requirements).
>
>> Do any copyright issues apply to the original blog content that I wrote?
> If you provide content for someone to publish, then you have to accept
> their conditions of publication. That might include transferring
> copyright to them and their exclusive use of the material. To avoid
> getting caught up in this, I usually put a substantial comment on my own
> blog first and then a summary of that elsewhere, with "more at" and my
> own blog address at the bottom.
>
>


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brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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