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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 7:09 pm
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[quote author=GWarnock link=topic=243.msg8307#msg8307
date=1510102532]
So high light, copy and paste, don't eat the paste.. oh, never
mind that last part.. ;)
then past here and adjust as necessary?
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Exactly.
I just highlighted and copied a post published by Oil Change
International at EcoWatch.
I will now paste it below and then copy and paste the headline
and author and date. THEN I resize and center the headline to
font size 18 and BOLD. If I want an image above, I would center
it at a width of 640, usually. I place a link to the article at
the end. Most of the time I do not post the whole article. I
normally post a snippet to get people to read the full article
at the place it was published first.
[center]
[img
width=640]
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/>[/center]
[center]Paradise Papers Reveal Toxic Mix of Tax Havens, Oil and
Trump’s Top Aides[/center]
[font=times new roman]Oil Change International[/font] Nov. 06,
2017 11:19AM EST
By Andy Rowell
On Sunday, the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ), working with dozens of media partners around
the world, published the results of a huge global investigation
into the use of tax havens.
The results of the investigation, based on the leak of 13.4
million files from two offshore service providers and 19 tax
havens' company registries, are shocking and lead to people who
are close to Trump.
The files, known collectively as the Paradise Papers, reveal the
offshore financial affairs of some of the world's biggest
multinational companies and richest individuals, including some
in Donald Trump's cabinet.
Trump has said he will work for ordinary Americans, but his
Cabinet are certainly not paying their fair share of tax.
Let's take a quick look at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The
ex-boss of Exxon is named in the Paradise Files "as a director
of an offshore firm used in a multibillion-dollar oil and gas
venture in the Middle East that became embroiled in
controversy," according to the Guardian, one of the papers
involved in the Paradise Papers collaboration.
Tillerson was a director of Marib Upstream Services Company,
incorporated in Bermuda in 1997 to conduct operations in the
Yemen's Marib-Al-Jauf basin, according to documents from leading
offshore law firm Appleby, which is at the center of the leak.
Marib was tied to Exxon during the time that Tillerson was
president of ExxonMobil's Yemen division. Tillerson sat on
Marib's board in the late nineties.
In turn, according to the ICIJ, Marib Upstream was a joint
Venture between three companies, including the Yemen Exploration
and Production Company which was jointly owned by Exxon and Hunt
Oil.
Hunt had discovered the gas fields in the mid nineteen eighties
and had brought in Exxon to help develop them.
However, according to the ICIJ, "In 2005, the Yemeni government
… turned over production rights to a state-owned company,"
effectively nationalizing the assets. Naturally Exxon and Hunt
objected and filed a complaint with the International Chamber of
Commerce, although Yemen won. Despite this ruling, the company
still existed as recently as 2015. But this is not Exxon's only
offshore dealings.
The Guardian pointed out that in a report published last year,
the campaign group Citizens for Tax Justice said Exxon had at
least 35 subsidiaries in tax havens such as the Bahamas,
Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Luxembourg. The company held over
$51 billion in offshore accounts while Tillerson was CEO.
The leak also raises questions about U.S. Commerce Secretary
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. who still has a stake in a shipping firm,
Navigator holdings, that receives millions of dollars a year in
revenue from a company whose key owners include Russian
President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, which is incorporated in
the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Some of the
individuals linked to the company are closely related to top
Russian officials currently under sanctions.
It is alleged that Ross was not totally forthcoming about the
extent of these business dealings. According to NBC News, Ross
"failed to clearly disclose those interests when he was being
confirmed for his cabinet position."
And once again the scandal links to oil. According to the ICIJ,
"Among Navigator's largest customers, contributing more than $68
million in revenue since 2014, is the Moscow-based gas and
petrochemicals company Sibur," which was created by the Russian
state.
Two of its key owners are Kirill Shamalov, who is married to
Putin's youngest daughter, and Gennady Timchenko, the sanctioned
oligarch whose activities in the energy sector, the Treasury
Department said, were "directly linked to Putin."
The ICIJ continued: "The leaked files showed a chain of
companies and partnerships in the Cayman Islands through which
Ross has retained his financial stake in Navigator. The fact
that Ross' Cayman Islands companies benefit from a firm
controlled by Putin proxies raises serious potential conflicts
of interest, experts say."
Amos Hochstein, the top energy diplomat during the Obama
administration, told the ICIJ: "When you start doing business
with Russian energy companies like Gazprom and Sibur, you're not
just getting into bed with the company. You're getting into bed
with the Russian state."
The Democrats have seized on leaked documents, with Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D-CT) calling the revelations of the Kremlin links
"inexcusable." Blumenthal also told NBC News, "Our committee was
misled, the American people were misled by the concealment of
those companies."
But today Ross [img
width=30]
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/>has come out fighting. He told the BBC, "There's nothing
whatsoever improper about Navigator having a relationship with
Sibur … If our government decided to sanction them, that would
be a different story." [img
width=150]
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: GWarnock Date: November 7, 2017, 7:18 pm
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And it is legal to do this from anywhere?
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 7:20 pm
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AS you can see, I made some added adjustments to the story. ;D
The BS detector is sized at img width=150. The Ross CROOK is so
full of bold faced BS that I felt it was approrpiate to point
that out.
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: GWarnock Date: November 7, 2017, 7:28 pm
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Can you copy and paste youtube vids to play ?
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 7:29 pm
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[quote author=GWarnock link=topic=243.msg8309#msg8309
date=1510103892]
And it is legal to do this from anywhere?
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Technically it is legal under the copyright laws. When a web
site makes a lot of noise about "this is copyrighted so do not
copy any part of this anywhere else or we will come after you",
I make real sure to not upset them by just putting the headline
and a tiny snippet.
All the posts here fall under the Copyright Fair Use provision
of copyright law.
For a full discussion, go the website below:
Copyright FAQs
Copyright Basics FAQ
Copyright Protection: What it Is, How it Works
Copyright Ownership: Who Owns What?
Copyright Registration and Enforcement
Grading Teachers on Copyright Law - Videotaping for the
Classroom
Copyrighting Your Software -- Why Bother?
Copyright Law Changes That May Affect You
HTML https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/
The bottom LEGAL line is that I am posting them to encourage the
dissemination of knowledge, not making money off of these posts
and am not claiming to be the writer of these articles. That's
what fair use is all about.
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 7:38 pm
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[quote author=GWarnock link=topic=243.msg8311#msg8311
date=1510104538]
Can you copy and paste youtube vids to play ?
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Certainly.
Here's a U-tube video from yesterday's Thom Hartmann program I
just right clicked on it, copied it and pasted it here. I always
center the video because it looks better. I copied his headline,
placed it in bold, gave it BLUE color, Font size 18 AND, of
course, centered it:
[center]Are Hydroponics Watering Down Organic Food Standards?
(w/Guest Lisa Stokke)[/center]
[center]
HTML https://youtu.be/rKLr-YBICUk[/center]
What would happen if the organic labels no longer specified
organic foods grown in the soil but also hydroponics? Lisa
Stokke from Next 7 Joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss
saving our food.
Thom Hartmann Nov. 6, 2017 3:30 pm
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 7:49 pm
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Here is a pararaph from a recent lengthy article I wrote which I
published here and at the Daily KOS, which is quite picky about
not violating copyright laws:
[quote]We now must apologize for interrupting this article to
bore you readers with some fine print:
Agelbert NOTE: The following includes snippets of an excerpt
from the excellent scientifically accurate book, "The Wave.
Copyright ©2010 Susan Casey. Published by Doubleday Canada, an
imprint of the Doubleday Canada Publishing Group, which is a
division of Random House of Canada Limited".
I am posting said snippets of said book review under Fair Use
for the purpose of Commentary. I am not posting for commercial
purposes. Even though Susan Casey and her publisher may benefit
from my praise of her book, which provides ample evidence for
increased giant wave activity, I do not benefit monetarily.
Consequently, I am sure these snippets of the book review
excerpts posted below are done under Fair Use - for a limited
and "transformative" purpose (i.e. Commentary) through which the
public will reap benefits (it may even save thousands of lives).
Nevertheless, if the Daily Kos legal eagles are concerned that I
may be infringing on a copyright here, I will delete the entire
article.That ends the fine print.[/quote]
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/climate-change/future-earth/msg7422/#msg7422
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: GWarnock Date: November 7, 2017, 8:36 pm
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Goodnight AGelbert, THANK YOU.. ;D
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Re: Posting content format and Fair Use copyright Law
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2017, 9:27 pm
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[quote author=GWarnock link=topic=243.msg8317#msg8317
date=1510108567]
Goodnight AGelbert, THANK YOU.. ;D
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You are
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Removed "forum" tab
By: GWarnock Date: November 8, 2017, 6:47 pm
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Hey AG, did you remove the forum tab? ???
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