I think you’re right—I can’t find anything under “fair use” that involves pasting someone else’s story onto the Forum without their permission, even if you link back to it.
I don’t understand how “the exception is writing covered by copyright”. All writing is covered by copyright!
The best move here is likely an excerpt + backlink, as we’ve done for e.g. Vox articles, and as news organizations and blogs do all the time for things they quote. I’ll clarify this in the contest rules later today. (Ideally, I’d still love to have full-text versions of things on the Forum, but I’ll specify that people should ask authors for permission before going that far.)
The method of submitting someone else’s work seems problematic if I understand it right—it sounds like a breach of copyright.
I think you’re right—I can’t find anything under “fair use” that involves pasting someone else’s story onto the Forum without their permission, even if you link back to it.
I don’t understand how “the exception is writing covered by copyright”. All writing is covered by copyright!
Not writing published 70 years after the author’s death, if I understand correctly.
(Which is not a hypothetical example if people are planning to excerpt Kipling).
You’re right, I stand corrected.
Yes, thanks — we need to clarify this.
The best move here is likely an excerpt + backlink, as we’ve done for e.g. Vox articles, and as news organizations and blogs do all the time for things they quote. I’ll clarify this in the contest rules later today. (Ideally, I’d still love to have full-text versions of things on the Forum, but I’ll specify that people should ask authors for permission before going that far.)