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A kinder, gentler assertion of rights

A recent article about my neighborhood in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle had a very forward-thinking copyright notice at the end.

© Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2007 All materials posted on BrooklynEagle.com are protected by United States copyright law. Just a reminder, though -- It's not considered polite to paste the entire story on your blog. Most blogs post a summary or the first paragraph, (40 words) then post a link to the rest of the story. That helps increase click-throughs for everyone, and minimizes copyright issues. So please keep posting, but not the entire article.

It strikes me as a really genteel way of merging social convention with copyright law in a way that acknowledges fair use and the rights of the original author. If your magazine goes behind a pay-wall, though, I'm still posting the whole thing.

And I apologize to the good folks at the BDE for posting the whole copyright notice.

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