Copyright Information on My How-To Articles
Phil Agre
Over the last several years I have circulated a series of how-to articles on
the Internet. These include:
I wrote these articles because the world is full of practical social skills.
Nobody is born with these skills, they are rarely taught, and unequal access
to them is an unnecessary force for inequality. Even though I own the
copyright to each of these articles, you are more than welcome to republish
them. I only ask the following:
- You can create hyperlinks to them for any purpose without asking
permission, but please do not make your own Web pages out of the text.
- You can circulate them electronically for any noncommercial purpose, so
long as you acknowledge my copyright.
- You can print copies on a nonprofit basis for the students in any school,
university, or training class.
- You can also reprint them in any publication, provided that you: (a)
inform me in advance so I'm not surprised, (b) credit me as the author, (c)
acknowledge my copyright (a simple "copyright 2001 by Philip E. Agre" will
suffice), (d) reprint each article in its entirety, without any additions,
deletions, and modifications, and (e) send me one copy of the publication
at the address listed on my home page. I would also ask that you mention
the URL of my home page <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/>, but this
is not required.
If these conditions seem overly elaborate, please understand that others have
plagiarized my online work, and I want to avoid a repeat of the unpleasant
interactions that such incidents can cause. If you would like to use any of
the articles in another way beyond the options I have mentioned, by all means
contact me at pagre@ucla.edu and we can
talk about it.
The following articles are not included in the above conditions:
- How to complain about spam. This article is
out of date, and I would prefer not to have it circulated any further.
- Building an Internet culture.
The copyright to this article is owned by Elsevier, which published it
in its journal Telematics and Informatics.
- Designing genres for new media. The
copyright to this article is owned by Sage, which published a version
of it in Steve Jones, ed, CyberSociety 2.0: Revisiting CMC and Community,
Sage, 1998. An earlier version appeared in The Network Observer 2(7) and
2(11), 1995.
Thanks very much.