Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall. The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Paul Llewellyn, an attorney with Kaye Scholer in New York City, explained. “A blogger might cut and paste a section of copyrighted material on the Internet and post it as context for their comments,” he said. “There’s potential copyright issues when you do things like that.”
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Bloggers Cautioned on Copyright Concerns
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. November 27, 2005 07:00 AMSloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall. The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Paul Llewellyn, an attorney with Kaye Scholer in New York City, explained. “A blogger might cut and paste a section of copyrighted material on the Internet and post it as context for their comments,” he said. “There’s potential copyright issues when you do things like that.”