Talk:The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia (book)

Question: Are you getting people's permission to use their reviews on BoyWiki or can you show that they are licensed free to use? That needs to be indicated in some way. That could be copyright infringement and possibly plagiarism unless they are excerpts and properly sourced. See TOS and Copyrights --Etenne 02:01, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that it qualifies as "fair use":

• Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

We are a non-profit organization, and part of our activities involve research and scholarship, commentary, criticism, etc. If amazon.com objects to use of the reviews, they can ask for them to be removed, but BoyWiki still may not be required to remove them due to the fair use provisions. User4 (talk) 03:32, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

When I took over as curator of BoyWiki, Fair Use on BoyWiki was completely prohibited. I have lessened those restrictions somewhat see BoyWiki:Fair use policy. However, we still do not want to use other people work without their permission if they have not made it free to use under GNU Free Documentation License, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License , or other similar license. There are some prople who would not want their work used on BoyWiki and we need to respect that.--Etenne 11:47, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

I understand your concerns, though it seems to me that BoyWiki used images from Wikipedia that may have been (I said, may have been) used under the Fair Use doctrine, and this was before you became curator.

BoyWiki also contains many older articles (articles created before you became curator) which contain quotations from publications, etc, and which were used without any permissions being granted--they were used under the Fair Use doctrine. No regard has ever been given to whether or not those people would "want their work used on BoyWiki".

It seems to me that we are talking about the same thing here. And BoyWiki has no need to worry about any legal liabilities: if a properly authorized person complains about something on BoyWiki being "some kind of violation of something or other" then BoyWiki can then simply remove the (so-called) "offensive material" (just as MElf has done on BoyChat). When that is done, then it is "case closed". There can be no further problems. User4 (talk) 00:40, 12 May 2016 (UTC)