Telescope Reviews: Posting Work by Others

As a reminder to all posters to this forum, here are some notes:

Work published or posted by someone on another web-site that you think this forum would benefit from should NOT be copied and pasted into a message and posted to this forum without the express permission of the author. That's what we call plagarism or copyright infringement.

The problem may be considered even more offensive if the material being reposted here was either from a private correspondence or private email. No one should ever post the contents of a private email correspondence to a public forum without the express permission of the author.

Before you can repost original works here, you can take one of several courses of action:

If you find information posted publicly somewhere that you think might be worth posting to this forum, then by all means post a link or reference to that item. But, DO NOT cut and paste the text or photo into a forum message. That will be deleted without question and without notification.

You can obtain the permission of the original author to repost his work or correspondence to this forum. The reposted work should include a notice that permission has been granted with a link or reference back to the original source.

Always request permission from an author to make public any private correspondence.

This type of consideration by our members will help to keep this forum at the top of the ethical pyramid. Thanks in advance for your co-operation.

Please see this thread for further discussion and other links to Internet Law
Internet Etiquitte and Laws

Just some reminders published previously

Copying photographs from other websites without permission is NOT OK.
Copying other peoples astrophotos without consent is NOT OK.
Copying info from other websites without permission is NOT OK.
All of the above may be deleted without notification.

Links to other websites photograghs are OK.
although you should at least consider the bandwidth demands you are putting on some poor soul

Providing links to other websites is OK.

Copying information after receiving permission would be OK.

Posting an email conversation between two parties without consent is NOT OK.

Posting an email conversation after receiving permission is OK.

Photocopying anything out of a book and posting it is NOT OK.

Obtaining permission from the author to post a copy is OK.

Quoting passages from a book with proper credits is OK.

I'm sure this does not cover it all.

Use good ethical judgement.
Thank you

edz

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