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April 10, 2006 3:34 AM

I thought jb, cribcage and delmoi might be interested to know their comments in last week's thread about liberalism on US campuses were published in Saturday's Guardian.
posted by biffa to MetaFilter-Related at 3:34 AM (32 comments total)

Page 38 in the main section.
posted by biffa at 3:34 AM on April 10, 2006

With Permission, one assumes - or do the Guardian still not understand about copyright?
posted by benzo8 at 3:40 AM on April 10, 2006

Are they in the Guardian online edition?
posted by altolinguistic at 4:06 AM on April 10, 2006

I couldn't find them with a quick look, I should say they only used a few sentences from each.
posted by biffa at 4:11 AM on April 10, 2006

Well, if you can't link the article it didn't happen. You are hereby ordered to scan the document and host the image for our convenience. NOW!
posted by gsb at 4:27 AM on April 10, 2006

Yeah, please give details :o I can't find anything and can't get the Guardian in this uncivilised country.
posted by keijo at 4:41 AM on April 10, 2006

With Permission, one assumes - or do the Guardian still not understand about copyright?

They quoted short extracts of each with attribution, their use falls within the remit of review / news reporting.

I don't see any reason why this would not be covered by fair dealing.
posted by Olli at 4:48 AM on April 10, 2006

"How old was that issue of The Guardian, Milo?"
posted by yerfatma at 5:07 AM on April 10, 2006

MetaFilter: midget commies.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:15 AM on April 10, 2006

They quoted short extracts of each with attribution, their use falls within the remit of review / news reporting.

Right - but without access to a copy of the Guardian to see otherwise, the OP made it sound like entire comments had been taken wholesale, no?
posted by benzo8 at 5:56 AM on April 10, 2006

I buy the guardian international edition on Saturdays when I can, and I saw this, however there is no way I can find it in the on line edition. Here is the search.
posted by adamvasco at 6:26 AM on April 10, 2006

I thought jb, cribcage and delmoi might be interested to know...

Indeed. Thank you.
posted by cribcage at 6:45 AM on April 10, 2006

Neat stuff. I missed the thread initially.
posted by bardic at 7:19 AM on April 10, 2006

(Actually, I didn't miss it initially. Just missed the fireworks.)
posted by bardic at 7:36 AM on April 10, 2006

I wonder if it was a Marina Hyde article. She's well known for 'lifting' articles from other sources, including blogs.
posted by movilla at 7:55 AM on April 10, 2006

movilla: No, they have a specific bit which quotes different blogs on a couple of different topics.
posted by biffa at 8:04 AM on April 10, 2006

She's well known for 'lifting' articles from other sources, including blogs.

movilla, xould you please give us a link about that, or something that talks about this. Even if it's just another throwaway blog comment that accuses somebody of plagiarism.
posted by gsb at 8:04 AM on April 10, 2006

I'll see if I can find the piece.
posted by movilla at 8:11 AM on April 10, 2006

Here's the Guido Fawkes piece.
posted by movilla at 8:16 AM on April 10, 2006

Ah...biffa: I wonder if you're referring to the "Today on the Web" page 2 regular blog quotes, collated by Ben Rooney.
posted by movilla at 8:26 AM on April 10, 2006

No, the Saturday edition has a page called the webpage with a section 'what the bloggers say...', page 38 this Saturday. (I just popped into the library here to check.)
posted by biffa at 8:41 AM on April 10, 2006

scanned (not terribly well) for the curious.
posted by featherboa at 11:30 AM on April 10, 2006

Heh, cool.
posted by delmoi at 12:00 PM on April 10, 2006

Keen!
posted by cortex at 12:17 PM on April 10, 2006

Wolfdog made a Bloom County reference, therefore he is cool.
posted by keswick at 12:22 PM on April 10, 2006

But you didn't notice he was responding to mine, so either you're not cool or I'm not.
posted by yerfatma at 12:32 PM on April 10, 2006

I choose to believe keswick was commenting unironically, and we're all cool.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:52 PM on April 10, 2006

Shit, I must not have had enough coffee today.

"Major uncool."
posted by keswick at 1:00 PM on April 10, 2006

Wish him away to the dandelion patch, Milo!
posted by loquacious at 1:13 PM on April 10, 2006

fetherboa, thanks for the scan, interesting.
posted by keijo at 1:21 PM on April 10, 2006

Does anyone else smell chips and vinegar?
posted by squirrel at 4:43 PM on April 10, 2006

Thanks, Featherboa.
posted by cribcage at 6:31 PM on April 10, 2006