The Big Purple Dog swats away a rebound! This is the photo Boxman was referring to in this thread on Crossports. The print edition of the Telegram & Gazette gave photo credit to the Boston Globe.
And speaking of that thread, prolific poster hchoops asked for the T&G game story of the Northeastern game. The story was written by Jen Toland, whose "permission to post" was one of the subjects of an enlightening and worthy discussion of copyright laws in this thread on the message board. Some posters wanted to "kill" that thread, but I thought it was a valid topic.
Poster "Tom" wrote: "A few other posters and myself had this conversation with Jennifer Toland (a T&G sportwriter) some time ago, and she graciously explained the copyright issue and also gave us verbal permisison to copy her articles to this forum. As an agent of the T&G, her permission was good enough for me."
I'm the guy who first spoke with Jen Toland about this. We talked at the NCAA basketball tournament at the DCU Center last March. Tom was nearby and I quickly filled him in on that part of my conversation with Jen. She did give us verbal permission to copy her articles, but as far as I recall, we didn't get into any substantive discussion of copyright laws.
I'm confident she doesn't have any problem with us posting her stories on Crossports, but I'm not going to post her articles in full for now. I will try to speak with her again soon, perhaps tomorrow at the BU game (the "other" BU) at Hart.
CROSSPORTS himself had this to say: "I ask that all posters to CROSSPORTS respect the copyright laws. It is fine to link to an article and to post excerpts under the "fair use" doctrine but wholesale copying of articles should not be done. Thanks for your cooperation and GO CROSS!"
Have we seen the last of fully-copied stories on the message board?
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