Thanks, Philippa! I appreciate the heads up. Fortunately, the sites we examined (Racialicious, Jezebel, and Essence.com for those keeping score at home) aren't pulling from AP (thank god!). I'll keep y'all posted on my progress and outcome. André On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz>wrote:
Just as an aside and to throw a spanner in the works - I've had a situation where we wanted to use a screenshot from an online newspaper but because the source of the article was Associated Press we had to get their permission as well to reproduce the text. This came at a financial cost. It's worth noting whether websites contain material from other sources that might also need permission. Unfortunately this is a can of worms scenario.
Kind regards
Philippa
Philippa Smith PhD Candidate Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND
André Brock<andre.brock@gmail.com> 09/02/10 9:41 AM >>> Thanks to everyone who's answered me so far (Hi, Annette!). The legal advice was particularly helpful, and i'm going to follow Ulf-Dietrich's advice and contact the websites - i have contacts at a couple of them.
Does AoIR have a specific statement on fair use of Internet/ICT materials for research in the field? I know we have an extensive set of materials on Ethics... (and no, i'm not volunteering to write it. i'm just asking)
André
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Andre Brock <andre.brock@gmail.com> wrote:
For the first time in, well, ever I've been asked by a journal to obtain permission from a website to reproduce a screenshot of a webpage. Not, to be clear, of an image on the page - but of the page itself. I've been offered the option of removing the image and replacing it with a URL, but from an archival standpoint that's problematic. Webpages with dynamic content change all the time, not to mention that authors sometimes change formats/platforms, modify pages, or remove content that was included in the original analysis.
I don't want to miss the publishing deadline, but I need to know: "where dey do dat at?!?" (translation: since when did fair use guidelines get bent so badly in academic publishing?)
André Brock Assistant Professor, SLIS/POROI University of Iowa
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