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A Note on Copyright

The WATCH:JERUSALEM newsletter was created to provide a modest educational review of how various news agencies, reporting channels, and information gatherers (primarily on the internet, since that's where the most interesting ones are, as it turns out) report on a very short and narrow list of topics related to Jerusalem and the Middle East.

The newsletter is distributed to a small, self-selected audience absolutely free of charge. It neither displays nor accepts any advertising, and contributions are neither solicited nor would they be accepted. There is no revenue generation from this enterprise at all.

As is stated at the bottom of each issue, "In keeping with this newsletter's aim to be a review of the press, every effort is made to make sure that copyright is not violated and excerpts fall within Fair Use guidelines."

As a "review," this newsletter is given by the copyright law a certain latitude in what is considered "Fair Use" of copyrighted material, as it relates to these four areas:

1. Purpose and character of the work. (As stated above, this is not a commercial venture. Use of material is decided on quite spontaneously and none is ever repeated.)
2. Nature of the copyrighted work. (Copyright legal precedent holds that non-fiction works are held to a much lesser standard of protection than fiction.)
3. Amount and substantiality of copying. (All excerpts pulled are done to give a representative sample of the whole. Selections are brief. Ellipses are clearly and accurately shown.)
4. Effect of the use on the market for the work. (As opposed to trying to usurp readership from the sources reviewed in the newsletter, all selections are designed specifically to increase use of original work by readers. Credit is never taken for anyone else's writing. Credit is clearly and completely given in every instance -- not only because it is the legally right thing to do, but because as an "educational review," the newsletter's intention is to point readers towards sources that will provide them the type of information they wish to receive, not keep them away from them.)