It is.

Even under the fair use provisions, such summaries must be attributed to their source. Under the current copyright law, most things are protected the moment they are written whether or not there is a copyright notice.

Everyone who reads this newsletter should read Brad Templeton's articles on Copyright Myths, Linking Rights, his Introduction to Copyright and his theory of Intellectual Property. Brad is the Chairman of the Board of The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the non-profit most likely to be engaged in the definitions of legal boundaries in cyberspace. He founded the first real online publishing business (Clarinet) and is broadly understood as an expert on these issues. (Obviously, if you have business related legal questions, you'll want to find a lawyer with some experience in the subject rather than introductory articles on the web.)

The essence of copyright law is that copyright belongs to the creator of the material from the moment it is created regardless of the media format.

Hope this is helpful.

- John Sumser

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