Regular readers of this blog know that I post a lot of small snippets from larger articles that I think you should read. To do this I highlight and copy that text from the original, paste it here, and then link to the original. Yeah, well, that’s usually easy. This weekend I ran into this the moment I tried to right-click or CTRL-C…
Well isn’t that special?
Click “Yes” and I get the options shown to the right; none of which apply to my situation. I don’t want to post a link to a social media service, reprint the whole article on my blog, or get a PDF. I want to post an excerpt under fair use.
Click “No” and the windows disappears, placing none of the highlighted text into my clipboard.
Click “Quit asking me” and the window disappears. Try again to copy as usual and everything works as it should.
Fine, you want me to pay a fee to reprint your whole article, that’s your right and I’ve got no problem with that. But the idea that this site feels the need to make it complicated and non-obvious to take advantage of fair use, just pisses me off and is one more example how the current copyright regime, totally favoring corporations is not doing us any good in the long run.
