I'm a vegetarian, and all of my friends on myspace are not vegetarians, and I have this book "365 Good Reasons To Be A Vegetarian" and I was gonna post a reason to be a vegetarian a day on a bulletin on myspace. But, then I was wondering will I get in trouble with the author or anything like that? Please help me!
2007-06-10 07:20:02 · 6 answers · asked by minnimushka 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ MySpace
If you're posting material that is copyrighted without the copyright holder's permission, you could be asked to remove the content, get your Myspace page closed down, or be subject to a lawsuit. It's not a good idea unless you can get the holder's permission.
2007-06-10 07:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by VanessaLyn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you write the publisher and/or author? How is the book licensed? If it's not a Creative Commons license, you're SOL without contacting them and asking for permission.
If you don't care about animals (or at least don't mind killing them, and anyone whose ever taken a Bioethics course should realize there's good reason for treating animals humanely, but not worrying about actually killing them quickly, aka not torturing them), then the primary reason for being a vegetarian is for health purposes. The secondary reason is due to environmental concerns and eating as low on the food chain as possible for the sake of efficiency. I'm not a vegetarian, but I limit my meat as much as I can (I don't buy meat, but I'll eat it if it's free) primarily for health reasons. What further argument do you need? Some people just aren't going to listen. There's a reason people still smoke and do drugs and don't exercise. They don't care about being healthy and living long lives. It's just not important to them. Don't be militant about it.
2007-06-10 14:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by dawhitfield 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably not technically legal, I'm not sure... but from a practical standpoint, I doubt the author would find out or, if they did, I doubt they would care, especially if you make sure to source the book under each reason and not claim the writing as your own.
2007-06-10 14:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by Sarah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just make sure to give credit to the author and put the title...
2007-06-10 14:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by gmtristan.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Word for word, maybe. But list the source of the quote.
Not word for word, no.
2007-06-10 14:23:58 · answer #5 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not if u put "......." around it nd at the end put the authors name
2007-06-10 17:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋