by John Darer CLU ChFC MSSC RSP CLTC
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.” (emphasis added)
Imperial Structured Settlements Plagiarized our Work
Our article posted April 2, 2012 on our blog which includes a prominently displayed copyright notice. (note was orriginally published on typepad at http://structuredsettlements.typepad.com/structured_settlements_4r/2012/04/jg-wentworth-to-go-public.html ) Typepad—-> WordPress September 2025
Imperial Structured Settlements website April 20, 2012 http://www.imperialstructuredsettlements.com/press/jg-wentworth-to-go-public/ besides the obvious you can see the A circonflex which gives away the cut and paste job.
While Imperial Structured Settlements cites this author as a source, there is no commentary and absent two removed lines it has copied our entire post (not an excerpt) and embedded links to itself. Imperial Structured Settlements then makes an audacious claim of copyright in our copyrighted material at the bottom of the page.
Imperial Structured Settlements DOES NOT have our imprimatur as the manner in which our copyrighted material has been presented implies. We did not authorize Imperial Structured Settlements to copy virtually our entire work and use it on its website to generate business. Setting aside the ludicrous discount rates it is notorious for, we neither are associated with, nor do business with, nor author articles for and do not respect companies like Imperial Structured Settlements who do not adhere to certain ethical standards in business as is evident by this example.
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