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07 October, 2005
Another instalment of Blog Bites
in Emirates Today. This week, oasis dubai, The Desert Weasel, Emirati's thoughts, Secret Dubai diary and Desert Idleness.
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do they get permission off people to quote them? or perhaps it comes under fair usage, but dubai doesnt have that...
hmmm...
They don't get permission, but it would be fair usage or some such.
It's generally fine to quote from a published work (which a blog is) as long as you attribute. Copyright permission issues would only come into play if someone started using reams and reams of blogging text as entire articles. The same rule goes for bloggers too - we should limit what we c&p (as in not entire copyright articles or other posts) and always attribute.
Fear of prosecution or not, it's just appropriate, ethical practice.
only difference is few bloggers make enough money to start worrying about, the paper / magazine must be making metric tonnes of gold for each issue.
doubtful anyone would bother retaliating, shooting themselves would do better than going through the UAE legal system.
Also i'd be worried if they quoted something that could get me in trouble when certain people read it
Also i'd be worried if they quoted something that could get me in trouble when certain people read it
This could happen with your blog too (although it's less likely, unless you are getting massive traffic).
i hopefully just added a measure to my blog to stop that ever happening
samuraisam - what measure are you referring to?
read the footer of the page.
will need improvement, but i did that at 3:45 AM
samuraisam - it's definitely a start, but even that won't protect you. At the end of the day no small print can protect anyone 100% against charges of libel, profanity, blasphemy, offensiveness, even in a country where freedom of speech is guaranteed, but especially in a country like this where it is isn't.
Not that your blog is necessarily any of those things, I am just pointing out generally.
generally speaking i doubt anything will happen unless i cross the "imaginary boundary" by publishing links etc which the UAE govt does not like, and i have plenty of those laying around.
and if it does get blocked, its only because its true
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