This article has been deleted as the result of Poughkeepsie Journal's threat of a lawsuit, claiming copyright violation. This page quoted one paragraph of text from their multiple-page article as a part of our larger editorial piece, which is allowable under the provisions of the Fair Use Act. and hosted a video which is distributed freely by them for sharing by their offering of an embedding code among the options for free distribution.
The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”
This article violated no laws in quoting a small patch of text to be included in our larger article, however, the editors here have concluded that it simply is not worthwhile to engage the Poughkeepsie Journal in debate of the matter as they have now proven themselves to be an unworthy news source.
